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Jaroslav Pelikan, The Vindication of Tradition: The 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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