[conservativephilosopher-announce] New post at The Conservative Philosopher

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Hello,
	There is a new post on The Conservative Philosopher.  You can read it at:

http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1108437126.shtml

It begins:

	My life has always been guided by the desire to
	achieve excellence in a variety of traditional
	modes: athletic, artistic, and scholarly. My youth
	was spent in exerting effort to control myself and
	through lengthy practice to cultivate these
	excellences. I have always valued the forms of
	excellence bequeathed to me by my culture. As a
	child, I yearned to join the Renaissance men in
	deeply and broadly inheriting these things in the
	most personal and complete way....