Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 168 of Daniel Boorstin’s splendid 1958 volume, The Americans: The Colonial Experience:

To say that a society can or ought to be “unified” by some total philosophic system – whether a Summa Theologica, a Calvin’s Institutes, or a Marx’s Capital – is to commit oneself to an aristocratic concept of knowledge: let the élite know the theories and values of the society; they will know and preserve for all the rest.