The Thinking Behind Grammar and Style
What is a Simile—and Why?
It seems to be agreed by those who know that what we call thinking is a kind of comparing. When we think, we are trying to understand what something is, to consider how it may be like or unlike something else we already know. And in thinking about a larger problem involving many things, we…
A Reasonable Culture
There are, in the end, matters more profound than culture, but every civilized community must yet possess some set of principles to last. What we think of as a people’s culture was originally a shared object of worship (we can sense that meaning still in our word cult), but we use the word now to…
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