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You can love Notre Dame without endorsing the Middle Ages.

In the words of Kingsley Amis' Jim Dixon:

"Those who profess themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up ... by a short study of the Middle Ages. ...
" ... The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chiang Kaishek, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages. ...
"Had people ever been as nasty, as self-indulgent, as dull, as miserable, as cocksure, as bad at art, as dismally ludicrous, or as wrong as they'd been in ... the Middle Ages." - Lucky Jim.
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