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Modernist   Listen
noun
Modernist  n.  
1.
One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
2.
An advocate of the teaching of modern subjects, as modern languages, in preference to the ancient classics.






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"Modernist" Quotes from Famous Books



... bottomless pit of predestination. It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one's own. It is always easy to be a modernist; as it is easy to be a snob. To have fallen into any of those open traps of error and exaggeration which fashion after fashion and sect after sect set along the historic path of Christendom—that would indeed have been simple. It is always simple to fall; there are an ...
— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton



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