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Commonplaces
Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
Money occupies the same place in modern society that God occupied in medieval society, as a kind of abstract guarantor of values that confers worth on different things and on different people.
—William T. Cavanaugh
— Society — Commonplaces #43 — July/Aug 2019 —
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