January 2012
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“On two occasions I have been asked,—”Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into...”
– Charles Babbage
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By the close of the seventeenth century, the leading clergymen were much more liberal in thought than the elderly uneducated laymen who controlled a great many of the rural congregations or the provincial politicians who often invoked religious fundamentalism because it was popular with the growing electorate.
Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, p.63
“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you...”
– Don Marquis