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The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

Roger Scruton

Sacrifice, Culture, Demand

Roger Scruton (2013). “Modern Culture”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

Roger Scruton

Modern Youth, Adults, Culture

Roger Scruton (2006). “Modern Culture”, p.127, A&C Black