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Are classical educators dooming their students to poverty? Even back in the early 1800s, that accusation was gaining steam. Edward Copleston was a titanic figure at Oxford's Oriel College in the early 19th century, and inspired John Henry Newman, among others. Facing attacks by utilitarian critics of Oxford, Copleston launched a defense of classical education in his “Reply to the Calumnies of the Edinburgh Review Against Oxford.”

Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO

Augustine’s Confessions, trans. R.S. Pine-Coffin: https://amzn.to/3U7vrsn

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Music: Save Us Now by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com