Carolina QuotesThe conservative realizes that many orthodox positions, once abandoned in panic because they were thought to be indefensible, are quite defensible in only one gives a little thought to basic issues. Surely one of these positions is the right of an individual or society to hold a belief which, though unreasoned, is uncontradicted.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
“Life without prejudice,” p. 13.
- work
- Life Without Prejudice (1965)
- year
- 1965
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- p. 13
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