“A romance of youth”

Rationalism is a romance of youth. There is nothing very much the matter with the age of reason; except, alas, that it comes before the age of discretion.

— William Cobbett (1925).

Published in: on August 23, 2017 at 2:06 pm  Comments (1)  

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  1. On August 28, 2017 at 11:43 am gregorystackpole said:

    Brilliant.

    –wait, is he judging the emotional-cognitive maturity of figures like Plotinus and Leibniz?

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