classicalism
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We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
We want to create a sustained counter effort to the perpetual tendency of all educational organisations towards classicalism, secondary issues, and the evasion of life.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The psychological descent into classicalism is always a strong possibility.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
In Dutch furniture of this time one sees the reproduction of the Napoleonic fashion—the continuation of the Revolutionists' classicalism.
From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield
There the pioneering impulse has passed out of life into stupid history books, and the inevitable classicalism, the fear of adventure, the superstition before social invention, have reasserted themselves.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
