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“No one will say that a lively sense of history is one of the intellectual virtues of the American people,” wrote Lionel Trilling in his introduction to ๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ฆ, a collection of very high-level essays on Great Books of the Western Tradition.