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Jan-10-2010

The Familiar Academic Sins

Posted by gigigriffis under books, litWis

He was guilty of all the familiar academic sins. He overestimated the power of logic, assumed that intelligent men are rational, and believed that through his friendships with the European elite…he could alter events.

- A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and The Renaissance, William Manchester

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