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… is from page 621 of the final (2016) volume – Bourgeois Equality [2] – of Deirdre McCloskey [3]‘s soaring trilogy on the essence of bourgeois values, on their transmission, and on their essential role in modern life:
The left and right join in opposing the future – the one because it is not a planned future and the other because it is not identical to the past.