''The spoiling of man seems always to begin when urban living predominates over rural. After man has left the countryside to shut himself up in vast piles of stone, after he has lost what Sir Thomas Browne called pudor rusticus, after he has come to depend on a complicated system of human exchange for his survival, he becomes forgetful of the overriding mystery of creation.''
So what solution does Weaver offer to the city-dweller?
''If he could continue to realize the presence of something greater than self and see the virtue of subordinating self to communal enterprise -- that is, see the virtue and not simply respond to coercion -- he might remain unspoiled even in the city.''
Richard Weaver from Ideas Have Consequences
Monday, December 10, 2007
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