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Parenting, Civilization, and God
By
Jack Kerwick
From Michel Montaigne and Blaise Pascal to David Hume and Edmund Burke, some of Western civilization’s most insightful philosophers have long noted the ease with which people mistake the longevity and stubbornness of habit with nature itself. While the expression “second nature” as a characterization of habit is common enough, the great difficulty of severing…
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