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Civilization is a spiritual labor, an openness to revelation, a venture of faith, subsisting to a great degree on things no more substantial than myths and visions and prophetic dreams; thus it can be destroyed not only by invading armies or economic collapse, but also by simple disenchantment.

Future tense, IV: America & the angels of Sacré-Cœur by David B. Hart - The New Criterion

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