Tradition, though of course always old, is at the same time always new, because it is forever being born again into a new generation and a new historical context. It will be lived and applied in a new and particular way. “Tradition nourishes the life of the spirit; convention merely disguises its interior decay.”
Thinking of Fiddler on the Roof song Tradition, and how maybe the musical ends up following this book's line of definition in the end
