Those who would characterize conservatism as nothing more than a desire to turn the clock back do not, says the author, understand the difference between a museum and a junk-yard.
Common phrases, like common coins, enjoy currency at their face value. If the phrase be witty or the coin shiny, the mass of men accept it in a spirit of unquestioning belief. But in dogmas as in dimes we find the hollowed coin; and here I should like to examine a certain phrase that runs freely through the land today although it has within it all the marks of counterfeit.
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