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“... with 100 photographs he had taken at the poem’s various locales), or his friendship with Thomas Hardy, who attended the burial of his ashes in Dorchester and wrote a poem in his memory. Treves’s devotion – and Madge Kendal’s – to a victim of Hardy’s capricious gods is best regarded as an illustration of man’s occasional humanity to ...”

“... possibility of a contemplative life. From then on, the burden of proof was on those who (like St Thomas Aquinas) thought that Aristotle was not wholly wrong, and that curiosity might not be simply a vice (the excitation of an unruly member, the inquiring eye as homologue of the pushy penis). Blumenberg takes very seriously indeed the episcopal condemnation ...”

“... that philosophers began reading Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations side by side with Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Since then, more and more analytic philosophers have come to agree with Putnam that ‘part of the problem with present-day philosophy is a scientism inherited from the 19th century.’ Putnam urges us to give up the ...”

“... took charge of the psychoanalytic movement. Jones saw himself in the same relationship to Freud as Thomas Huxley had been to Darwin; both he and Huxley, Jones wrote, were ‘bonny fighters’. Huxley described himself as ‘Darwin’s bulldog’ and Maddox’s title refers to Jones as ‘Freud’s wizard’, but he was more commonly known as ‘Freud’s ...”