"Devoir" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
Fr. Duty. It is used in the statute of 2 Ricb. II. c. 3, in the Bense of duties or customs
Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect;
-- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the
ladies.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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