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To: Aquinasfan
Unfortunately, the rest of the book wasn't as good as the opening line.

Sorry to hear Aquinasfan say that. Perhaps his essay on higher education in Giants and Dwarfs has more to offer in the two finishing essays, "The Crisis of Liberal Education" and "The Democratization of the University." In it you'll find this nugget:

When they no longer have anything before which they can bow, their world is near its end, and all the suppressed and lawless monsters within man remerge. One might suggest that our New Left is a strange mixture of nihilism with respect to past and present and a naive faith in a future of democratic progress.

73 posted on 09/09/2003 1:09:17 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: cornelis
When they no longer have anything before which they can bow, their world is near its end, and all the suppressed and lawless monsters within man remerge. One might suggest that our New Left is a strange mixture of nihilism with respect to past and present and a naive faith in a future of democratic progress.

That's definitely a nugget.

93 posted on 09/10/2003 4:48:05 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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