"Through the history of the modern academic and culture, as we have noted, the definition of "magic" in relation to science and religion has been a major problem. At the root of the problem is the loaded, evaluative of "magic" as false, deceptive, discredited, or morally tainted, contrasted with both science and religion . Thus, "magic" is relegated to the "they" side of a "we/they". This is simultaneously unfair to the materials and practices studied under the heading of "magic," and self-serving for the materials that are exempted from that label. It perpetuates a complacent."

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"I didn't fucking spend my time living through the era of Vietnam to fucking come around to this fucking time and not having learned that the goddamn situation boils down to this: If you're against the…"

"For all his derogation, he truly believed in the modern, as subversive of established values, a mine or fuse laid under the terrain of the virtuous; the words, modern, secular, experimental, were draw…"

"No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle."