29 January 2016
Prelapsarian: Characteristic of the time before the fall of man; unspoiled; innocent
- The notion that walling out immigrants from within or beyond Europe's borders will return the country to a Prelapsarian state, in which human labor will once more be the center of a brisk economy, is fantastical. (Andrew Solomon)
- This is an important reminder that the world before email was no prelapsarian paradise. (Cal Newport in A World Without Email pg. 69) 17/11/2022
- By refusing to look at the rest of the globe, one forestalls seeing oneself. (Andrew Solomon)
- The ability to tolerate or even celebrate coinciding identities is one of the hallmarks of sophistication; the absence of that ability is a mark of desolation. (Andrew Solomon)
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