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Monday, October 02, 2023
A Secret Society
John Jay Chapman (1862-1933), Memories and Milestones (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1915), p. 184:
Every generation is a secret society, and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.