"Pseudomorph" is a word in ENGLISH
An irregular or deceptive form.
A pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of
quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal
having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution.
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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