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Quotes from The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities — Jaroslav Pelikan

d. 2006 United States

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Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.

The Vindication of Tradition: 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1984)

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