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An Enlightened Trust In The Sovereignty Of Human Reason Can Be Every Bit As Magical As The Exploits Of Merlin, And A Faith In Our Capacity For Limitless Self-improvement Just As Much A Wide-eyed Superstition As A Faith In Leprechauns.

If The Masses Are Not Thrown A Few Novels , They May React By Throwing Up A Few Barricades.

It Is True That Some Liberals And Humanists, Along With The Laid-back Danes, Deny The Existence Of Evil. This Is Largely Because They Regard The Word 'evil' As A Device For Demonising Those Who Are Really Nothing More Than Socially Unfortunate.

Evil Is Unintelligible. It Is Just A Thing In Itself, Like Boarding A Crowded Commuter Train Wearing Only A Giant Boa Constrictor. There Is No Context Which Would Make It Explicable.

Like The Rest Of Us, Tom Paulin Is A Bundle Of Contradictions. At Its Finest, His Work Is Brave, Adventurous, Original And Wonderfully Idiosyncratic.