The Magic of Curiosity

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Children know something we don’t; this I am sure of. They know something about how to properly live. One of those “properly-living” prescriptions sorely missing from the ecology of the average adult is a cultivated spirit of curiosity. There are few among us that do not read those lines and experience a frisson of wistful, knowing recognition.

Curiosity is a virtue too often conceived of as a charming novelty enmeshed in…