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Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows no ...
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led eith ...
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, th ...
Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious.
The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I n ...
Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just a ...
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, ...
The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promo ...
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphem ...
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profun ...
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