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Old 03-20-2008, 08:45 PM
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So Lewis' prediction of the death of civilization was accurate.

It seems to me that some degree of learning is a necessary part of pastoral vocation, but it cannot be held up as intrinsically a pursuit of learning. So Coleridge

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Still the Church presents to every man of learning and genius a profession, in which he may cherish a rational hope of being able to unite the widest schemes of literary utility with the strictest performance of professional duties.
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