In the canon
A Preface to Morals
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 1929
- Pages
- Pages 348
Science, machinery and the crowded modern city had done something to belief that no argument could undo, and Lippmann gave it a name: the acids of modernity, which do not refute a faith so much as quietly dissolve it. He wrote for the people left standing in the residue, who no longer believe what their grandparents believed and have found they cannot simply decide to.
The acids of modernity are dissolving the usages and the sanctions to which men once habitually conformed.
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