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Jefferson: Sacred and Undeniable
Franklin: Self-Evident
(Note by Jacques Barzun)
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Albert Jay Nock, “The Triumph of the Gadget”
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Barzun, A Stroll with William JamesAnyone brought up in the Alps and taking trips among them knows that “a mountain” is never twice the same — in shape, color, and “character.” It is “one thing” by a fiat helped by a name.
Bagehot, “The Metaphysical Basis of Toleration”
Human character is a most comple… waisberg.micro.blog
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“Where the development of talent is concerned we are still in the food-gathering stage. We do not know how to grow it. Up to now in this country when one of the masses starts to write, paint, etc., it is because he happens to bump into the right accident. In my case the right accident happened in the 1930s... waisberg.micro.blog