Writing Is Thinking In Slow Motion.

The First Function Of A Book Review Should Be, I Believe, To Give Some Idea Of The Contents And Character Of The Book.

There Is Thus A Certain Plausibility To Nietzsche's Doctrine, Though It Is Dynamite. He Maintains In Effect That The Gulf Separating Plato From The Average Man Is Greater Than The Cleft Between The Average Man And A Chimpanzee.

The Greeks Had Considered Hope The Final Evil In Pandora's Box. They Also Gave Us An Image Of Perfect Nobility: A Human Being Lovingly Doing Her Duty To Another Human Being Despite All Threats, And Going To Her Death With Pride And Courage, Not Deterred By Any Hope - Antigone.

Job's Forthright Indictment Of The Injustice Of This World Is Surely Right. The Ways Of The World Are Weird And Much More Unpredictable Than Either Scientists Or Theologians Generally Make Things Look.

When Hegel Later Became A Man Of Influence' He Insisted That The Jews Should Be Granted Equal Rights Because Civic Rights Belong To Man Because He Is A Man And Not On Account Of His Ethnic Origins Or His Religion.