"The great problem of American life [is] the……" — Unknown Author

"The great problem of American life [is] the riddle ofauthority: the difficulty of finding a way, within a liberaland individualistic social order, of living in harmoniousand consecrated submission to something larger than oneself.... A yearning for self-transcendence and submission to authority [is] as deeply rooted as the lure ofindividual liberation."

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