Richard Hofstadter Quotes

The American Mind Was Shaped In The Mold Of Early Modern Protestantism. Religion Was The First Arena For American Intellectual Life, And Thus The First Arena For An Anti-intellectual Impulse. Anything That Seriously Diminished The Role Of Rationality And Learning In Early American Religion Would Later Diminish Its Role In Secular Culture. The Feeling That Ideas Should Above All Be Made To Work, The Disdain For Doctrine And For Refinements In Ideas, The Subordination Of Men Of Ideas To Men Of Emotional Power Or Manipulative Skill Are Hardly Innovations Of The Twentieth Century; They Are Inheritances From American Protestantism.

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