The book was heavy on polemics equating moral virtue and civic responsibility with military service.

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Erasmus, Kolakowski thought, tried to combine the "faith alone" approach of Luther and Calvin with Roman Catholicism's emphasis on works and moral virtue.

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Instead, it must come from donors, who should be made to see the virtue of holding their alma maters, their children and themselves to higher academic and moral standards.

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Take a look at "The Moral Limits of Wealth, " an essay that Dinesh D'Souza adapted from his book The Virtue of Prosperity (Free Press, 2000).

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