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And it is perhaps made more clear by what has now been said, in what the genius and talent of such men shewed itself. The influence of such ...

An interesting bit from a letter to Dora Abdy, as quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll : My Dear Dora...

I brought with me here (this letter was written from Eastbourne) the MS., such as it is (very fragmentary and unarranged) for the book about...

James Chastek has a nice little post on burden of proof that I think is exactly right. Burden of proof is something I think we tend to hand...

Song by Thomas Lovell Beddoes A cypress-bough, and a rose-wreath sweet, A wedding-robe, and a winding-sheet, A bridal bed and a bier. ...

The Isles Your reason is a snowdrift reason, icy in and out of season, cold and sharded frost with flakes in which no grace or fervor wakes ...

One often hears the word 'scientism'. I've never really liked the term, since it fairly clearly is misleading as to what it is s...