Tuesday, 28 February 2012

As objective as a panel of butchers telling us we should eat more meat

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Everyone wants to live what they would see as the good life. Philosophers have had plenty to say about what this comprises, but their answe...
Friday, 17 February 2012

Pounded to death by the thunder of its own prosperity

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The once ancient, free, and Hanseatic city of Hamburg, now almost pounded to death by the thunder of its own prosperity J. Le Carré, Smiley...
Monday, 6 February 2012

For fifty years the world has talked of, condemned, and executed Robespierre

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For fifty years the world has talked of, condemned, and executed Robespierre. Men and women, who have barely heard the names of Pitt and Fox...
Friday, 3 February 2012

But rebellion and hell-fire are synonomous

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"But rebellion and hell-fire are synonomous," said the priest, "and loyalty is the road to Paradise A. Trollope, The Vendee ...
Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Only the whore of Babylon rises rather splendid

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Only the whore of Babylon rises rather splendid, sitting in her purple and scarlet upon her scarlet beast. She is the Magna Mater in malefic...
Tuesday, 31 January 2012

It is a great relief to find Anaximander's wheels in Ezekiel

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It is a great relief to find Anaximander's wheels in Ezekiel. The bible at once becomes a book of the human race instead of being a cork...
Monday, 30 January 2012

Religion is the most dangerous thing in the world

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'Exactly. Religion is the most dangerous thing in the world. It is not little girls in their communion frocks and silly holy pictures an...