"...Moderns still want the past to be (in Whiggish fashion) (('the verdict', 'the judgment', of history)) the ratification of the present; when they find it otherwise, they do not ignore it, but repudiate it. The intelligentsia of the present age ((postmodernist)) characteristically does not turn away from the past with indifference; it reaches back into the past to silence its message...."
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