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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
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“After all, modernity is above all things convinced that it owes nothing to the past, that is has made itself, that what matters is what is happening right now. Indeed, this is the meaning of the freedom, power, and progress that we all prize...”
― The Theological Origins of Modernity
― The Theological Origins of Modernity
“Well, sir," said Uncle Henry, "I'll tell you. They took a piece off the lump of lead they made their bullets of, melted it over the fire in the hearth down at the schoolhouse till it would run like water, and poured it in that groove. When it cooled off, there was a long streak of solid lead, about as big as one of our lead-pencils nowadays. They'd break that up in shorter lengths, and there you'd have your lead-pencils, made while you wait. I tell you, in the old days folks knew how to take care of themselves more than now.”
― Understood Betsy
― Understood Betsy
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