Russell Kirk Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: October 19, 1918 - April 29, 1994
Birthday: October 19
Death: April 29
Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day.
topic: Country, Ambition, Mind, Anathema, Applied Science
