Frogpondians and the Tower of Babel

Submitted by Martin J. Malliet (Belgium), Aug 31, 2018 at 18:52

You see how complicated it is to find a common understanding? There is also a story in the Bible about the Tower of Babel, which must have something to do with our problem. - Poe in a letter to Chivers (10 July 1844) wrote: "You mistake me in supposing I dislike the transcendentalists - it is only the pretenders and sophists among them." - So I don't think I'm mistaken when I use the word 'frogpondians' the way I used it. - Here's another piece by Eric Voegelin on our subject (conservatism vs liberalism) put on the web by the people from voegelinview:

https://voegelinview.com/what-is-a-liberal-pt-1/

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