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… is from page 540 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 trouble with a liberal society is that it has few defenses against the worst of left or right dogma, because its leading principle is pluralistic nondogmatism.