Tuesday, 21 July 2015

That, it appeared, was the High Toryism of Tietjens as it was the extreme Radicalism of the extreme Left of the Left.

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And over their port they agreed on two fundamental legislative ideals: every working man to have a minimum of four hundred a year and every...
Monday, 20 July 2015

As a political matter, is home cooking today a reactionary or progressive way to spend one's time?

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Is cooking a form of oppression, as many feminists argued (with some justification, I might add) in the 1960s? Back in the 1970s, KFC ran b...
Saturday, 11 July 2015

Given the choice, many animals will opt for cooked food over raw

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Given the choice, many animals will opt for cooked food over raw. This shouldn't surprise us: "coked food is better than raw,...
Thursday, 9 July 2015

I blame the radio for sowing a good deal of confusion where theology is concerned

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Two or three of the ladies had pronounced views on points of doctrine, particularly sin and damnation. I blame the radio for sowing a good ...
Wednesday, 8 July 2015

In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets

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I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a human beauty in it. And I can...
Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Feuerbach is a famous atheist, but he is about as good on the joyful aspects of religion as anybody

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Feuerbach is a famous atheist, but he is about as good on the joyful aspects of religion as anybody, and he loves the world. Of course he th...
Wednesday, 3 June 2015

The greatest volume of any single product traded internationally in western Europe during the medieval period.

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In the period 1305-36, when the city [Bordeaux] was prosperous under English occupation, it is estimated that wine exports from Gascony to E...