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David Martin comments (TLS, June 16) on Maurice's Bloch's view that ritual crushes human creativity: "No doubt that is how the Jesuits (with their Spiritual Exercises) turned into such scientifically incurious stay-at-homes, how the Mormons built a city in the desert, and the Muslims created an empire stretching from Spain to the Euphrates."
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Monday, June 26, 2006 at 04:27 PM
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