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Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
What does it matter if a tradition no one identifies with any longer is unjustly disparaged? If history does not precisely authorize the use we make of the word Puritanism, we all know what we mean by it, so what harm is done? Well, for one thing, we make ourselves ignorant and contemptuous of the first two or three hundred years of one major strain of our own civilization.
—Marilynne Robinson
excerpt from Salmagundi, No. 101–102 (Winter–Spring 1994)
— education — Commonplaces #226 — Mar/Apr 2025 —
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