I love elitism. That’s why I wrote about these very elitist seventeenth-century Jesus freaks. I’m talking about the Puritans. The thing that’s great about them is their love of knowledge and language and words and learning. They’re building their little cabins and then they get cracking building Harvard because they want their sons to know Hebrew and Greek and Latin and to have read Aristotle and they want those people to be in charge of them, the people who know stuff.
Sarah Vowell
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