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Strength to Love · 1963
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker warns that a society that keeps producing people unwilling to think hard is ruining itself gradually. Like buying something on installments, the cost is paid in small amounts, so eventual spiritual death arrives through steady habit rather than sudden collapse.
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