Tradition

Tradition is an embodiment of givens that must constantly be fought for, recovered in each generation, and adjusted to new conditions.
-Eugene Genovese. The Southern Tradition. (4-5)

A Tidbit

Socialization has to be transmitted from the old to the young, and habits and ideas must be maintained as a seamless web of memory among the bearers of the tradition, generation after generation. If this does not happen, community will break down into factional wars and the new generation will be faced with the task of rediscovering, reinventing, and relearning by trial and error most of what it needs. No one generation can do this.
-Walter Lippmann. The Public Philosophy