We’ve already seen far too many brave Americans cut down in our nascent Civil War. But today saw a casualty that may turn out to be more terrible than all the others put together. It wasn’t a man who died, not even a woman or a child. It was civilisation itself. Today the Louisiana General Assembly shut down that state’s fine Seminary of Learning because of the war.  Will it ever reopen? Or have we decided that killing our brothers is the only thing that matters, and we will turn our back on the wisdom of the ancients until that bloody task is done?