But wasn't it the vision of the Founding Fathers that righteous men didn't need to be subservient to a corrupt earthly authority? The author isn't writing (in this small instance) to those of us who know academica is corrupt! He's writing to show further examples of the truth to everyone else.
Yep. Sadly, we're about 225 years down stream from them, and I suspect it may have been expecting too much from this temporal reality anyway.
Mark W.