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Than Quotes by Terry Eagleton
- In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the…
- It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the…
- It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the…
- The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of…
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