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Original Sin

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Another recent read was Alan Jacobs' ia href="http://www.amazon.com/Original-Sin-Cultural-Alan-Jacobs/dp/0060783400"Original Sin/a/i. It's a splendidly engaging history (and defense) of the notion of original sin and its detractors. I thought one of the most perceptive observations came in the book's concluding paragraphs: blockquoteIf there is a proper response, a truly wise response, to the narrative of this book, it surely begins with the recognition that if ieveryone/i is bad to the bone -- if all of us strut and fret our hour upon the stage, filled with the consciousness of our injured merit, fairly glowing with self-praise -- then our condition is, first and above all else, icomical/i. /blockquote

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on December 20, 2008 (boomark / email).