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The experience of rationality, of conceptual clarity, is so overwhelming that once “infected,” the mind will settle for nothing less. When Archimedes (allegedly) cried “Eureka ” in his bathtub, his excitement was over having discovered a pattern (in this case, the law of specific gravity), not over the sensual impact of the water on his skin.
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DARK AGES AMERICA — Blog for Morris Berman
From one of those articles where I want to share every other paragraph with everyone I know.
