premise: but ,<hypo> At the same time it would have retained both its historic religious faith (instead of exchanging Protestant rigor for a post-Christian Social Gospel and a soft pantheism) and its more self-denying culture (instead of letting all that wash away in the flood of boomer-era emotivism).
hypothesis: <hypo> should be " rather than under the pseudo-democratic auspices of the SAT and the high school resume and the dubious ideal of "merit.""