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“ Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ Man is a mixture of good and evil, and he can never be perfected in this life. The notion of his natural goodness is a delusive theory which will blow up any social order that is predicated upon it. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The Southerner tends to look upon nature as something which is given and something which is finally inscrutable. This is equivalent to saying that he looks upon it as the creation of a Creator. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The United States lost more men from battle wounds and disease in the Civil War than in any other war of its history, including the Second World War. The battle front stretched from Pennsylvania to New Mexico, and included also the seven seas. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The assertion of purpose in a world we felt to be purposeless would be a form of sentimentality. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The assertion of purpose in a world we felt to be purposeless would be a form of sentimentality. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ Man is a mixture of good and evil, and he can never be perfected in this life. The notion of his natural goodness is a delusive theory which will blow up any social order that is predicated upon it. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ 'Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ 'Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder, we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The Southerner tends to look upon nature as something which is given and something which is finally inscrutable. This is equivalent to saying that he looks upon it as the creation of a Creator. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The Southerner tends to look upon nature as something which is given and something which is finally inscrutable. This is equivalent to saying that he looks upon it as the creation of a Creator. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The Southerner tends to look upon nature as something which is given and something which is finally inscrutable. This is equivalent to saying that he looks upon it as the creation of a Creator. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ 'Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household… ”

- Richard Weaver

“ Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. ”

- Richard Weaver

“ Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. ”

- Richard Weaver
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