Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Aug 29, 2022
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“The WORLD is too much with us,” says the poet Wordsworth, “late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” I don’t know whether young people now possess the linguistic or theological sophistication to make sense of that sentence. They might ask, “How can the EARTH be too much with us? Or the UNIVERSE? Or REALITY?” But that’s the o…

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