“Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.”
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As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.
Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.