Thursday, August 24, 2023

A Lot Of Numskulls

Paul Hazard, European Thought in the eighteenth Century: from Montesquieu to Lessing, tr. J. Lewis May (Yale University Press, 1954), p. 8 (the author is describing what we find in Jonathan Swift's opus):

. . . And the Philosophers? A lot of numskulls grinding away in vacuo; nothing is too absurd, too outrageous, to be put forward by one or another of them.

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