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Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.

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Allan Bloom
Age: 62 †
Born: 1930
Born: September 14
Died: 1992
Died: October 7
Classical Scholar
Journalist
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Indianapolis
Indiana
Allan David Bloom
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Newspaper
Prayer
Cheap
Life
Replaced
Newspapers
Usurped
Daily
Nietzsche
Busy
Ephemeral
Meaning
Bourgeois
Eternal
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