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National Review, Sept 30, 1996 by Jeffrey Hart
By any intelligible standard the other great civilization was China, yet it lacked the Athens - Jerusalem tension and dynamism. Much more static, its symbols were the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, not Odysseus/Columbus, Chartres, the Empire State Building, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.
When undergraduates encounter the material of our civilization --that is, the liberal arts -- then they know that they are going somewhere. They are becoming citizens.
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