Sunday, August 17, 2008

But Locke,

leaving this out of his calculations, was confident that a kind of intellectual atomism, with all things left to the emancipated personality and the prosy literal utilitarian education, would secure mankind against the violence of unreason. Men, however, hunger after faith, far more than an abstract right to judge all things upon the basis of their fallible senses; and if they are denied the faith of tradition, they will embrace the faith of a latter-day Ragnarok.

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