Word: disestablishmentarian
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Both Eliot and the pragmatists were, broadly, students of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821. What they inherited from him was what Menand terms the “disestablishmentarian impulse”: the distrust of all fixities, the crusade against all institutions and orthodoxies...
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