The Amodernist Péguy’s critical stance toward both broad coalitions made him neither a modernist nor an antimodernist, but something quite distinctive and instructive.

Tony Esolen posted this on facebook with the comment, "Charles Peguy was a hero both as an intellectual and as a French patriot, dying a brave man's death shortly after the onset of World War 1. In the 4-year Humanities course at Magdalen College, we read his excellent Portal to the Mystery of Hope, which gives a profound reflection on what it means to belong to a specific place, to work this soil and not another -- the sweetest that I know of, and intimately bound up with the mystery of fatherhood. The father passes his tools down to his sons, and by the time he does so, the handles are shiny with the pressure of his hands for years upon years..."

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