Re: middle ages and nature+

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Dear Alice,

As you know, demanding huge piles of dreary " documentation " compiled

by mediocrities is one of 's favorite rhetorical tricks - if

you don't know every obscure paper by every nugatory assistant

professor, then, he implies, you don't know the topic and should be

quiet. This is, I would say, a typically modern attitude, and one runs

into it with lawyers all the time, in my experience. (I have said and

will repeat that would have been a most effective lawyer.) So,

in dealing with lawyers, quote 'em a pile of " research " , and that

usually silences them, or rather puts them on another tack. But what

does any of that have to do with the truth? Nothing. The truth is not

gathered up like piles of bricks. Especially with respect to the

so-called social sciences, you can use the " research " to support about

any opinion that you want.

What is needful is not " research, " but insight. There is nothing of

consequence that a giant intellect like Jung's cannot learn by means

of direct observation - and giant intellects are the only ones that

count. The rest of us should just sit at their feet.

Who was the nineteenth century wag who noted that England had two

universities, and Ohio had fifty?

best,

Dan

>

> Dear Steve - I think u forget I am 85, handicapped, unable use rt

hand etc n

> doing my damndest to keep working, pay bills, etc. etc. I am totally

unable

> to engage in a lengthy intellectual discussion on the feudal n RC

attitude to

> nature!

>

> However, I am always ready to read yr input! n am sure many others

might as

> well.

>

> I taught hist for 18 yrs n have a lib full of bks but am now unable

to pull

> em off shelf.

>

> So forgive me if i disappoint.

>

> love,

>

> tired old lady!

>

> ao

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