Dan Simmons book The Rise of Endymion
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 33 (p. 677)
“Contemporary intellectuals have given up the Enlightenment assumption that religion, myth, and tradition can be opposed to something ahistorical, something common to all human beings qua human.”
"The priority of democracy to philosophy"
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