“The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.”

— Richard M. Weaver

“The Importance of Cultural Freedom,” p. 29.
Life Without Prejudice (1965)

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