'A great many of us, in the face of recent experience, have arrived with a jolt at the archaic-sounding conclusion that morality was the glue holding society together, just when we were in the middle of proving that it was a repressive system to be blamed for all our ills.'
Marilynne Robinson, 'Puritans and Prigs' in The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, p.159.
