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AA founder realized drunks need to rely on other drunks
From: Sunday Gazette-Mail
Date: 20040523
Author:H. John Rogers, For the Sunday Gazette-Mail
"[Bill Wilson was] the greatest social architect of the 20th century." - Aldous Huxley
SINCE pre-Revolutionary War times, there have been two great themes that have run through American life. One is a collective type of spirituality that bubbles over into mass movements. These people used to generally denominated as "enthusiasts"; they range from Jonathan Edwards to Joseph Smith, to West Virginia's own tiny Nazi enclave in Pocahontas County.
The other might be loosely dubbed the "self-improvement" movements. From Benjamin Franklin to today's fitness gurus, Americans have set forth grimly to ...
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