Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)



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… is from page 216 of Virginia Postrel’s superb and still-relevant 1998 book, The Future and Its Enemies:


David Hume was right: Reason has always been the slave of the passions. That makes the cultivation of life-enhancing moral sentiments, like the cultivation of better crops, both an exercise of artifice and an essential goal of civilization.




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