This essay one day will be cited by historians. They will cite it to prove that the decline, decadence and dissolution of American culture was the result the neo pagan embrace of epicurean hedonism by a critical percentage of the population. The values and practices espoused by Sullivan are enshrined in the platform of the Democratic Party.
Well stated.
That is a great line.
I have been reading Will Durant’s “Caesar and Christ” and he very succinctly ends the book with that opinion on the fall of Rome.
“And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! “
-Kipling