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Universities Are No Longer Educational In Any Sense Of The Word That Rousseau Would Have Recognised. Instead, They Have Become Unabashed Instruments Of Capital. Confronted With This Squalid Betrayal, One Imagines He Would Have Felt Sick And Oppressed.

To Claim That Science And Religion Pose Different Questions To The World Is Not To Suggest That If The Bones Of Jesus Were Discovered In Palestine, The Pope Should Get Himself Down To The Dole Queue As Fast As Possible. It Is Rather To Claim That While Faith, Rather Like Love, Must Involve Factual Knowledge, It Is Not Reducible To It.

It Is Language Which Speaks In Literature, In All Its Swarming 'polysemic' Plurality, Not The Author Himself.

Man Eternally Tries To Get Back To An Organic Past That Has Slipped Just Beyond His Reach.

If We Were Not Called Upon To Work In Order To Survive, We Might Simply Lie Around All Day Doing Nothing.