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Russell Kirk: Grim narcissism

CALL AND RESPONSE

Russell Kirk , great American writer, historian and conservative thinker ended his Conservative Reader anthology by including this pithy comment on modern folly: "The totalists say that the old order is a corpse, and that man and society must be fashioned afresh, in grim fashion, upon a grim plan."

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