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“Such a principled disregard of ad hominem evidence is a characteristically modern prejudice of professional philosophers. For most Greek and Roman thinkers from Plato to Augustine, theorizing was b...”
“As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men hav...”
“Intellect is the virtue of ignoring ones emotions attempt to contaminate ones opinions.”
“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record - and it...”
“Some lurid things have been said about methat I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forththat I leave to others to decide the truth of. I'd only point out, though, that if...”
“Indeed, not all attacksespecially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwinare offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.”
“I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one...”
“Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.”
“Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.”
“Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I leave to others to decide the truth of. I'd only point out, though, that ...”
