Friday, September 10, 2021
Unripe and Unready
Albert Jay Nock, Snoring as a Fine Art and Twelve Other Essays (Rindge: Richard R. Smith Publisher Inc., 1958), p. 195:
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Our old friend Frank Warrin tries hard to make me believe that America is ripe and ready for another Voltaire or Rabelais. It isn't. There would have to be about five centuries of intensive spade-work put in on American intelligence before either of those two worthies could do a dollar's worth of business in America.
