But the conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do not, with some isolated and some ecclesiastical exceptions, express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seem to resemble ideas.
Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, p. ix, 1950
Not much has changed.
Saturday, June 04, 2005
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