'For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves than they can combine existence with non-existence'.

- Benedict de Spinoza. Political Treatise. 1677.



Sunday, February 28, 2010

on certainty 311


311. Or imagine that the boy questioned the truth of history (and everything that connects up with it) – and even whether the earth had existed at all a hundred years before.


                                                                                                                                    
I imagine you would have before you an exceptional student
 

© greg t. charlton. 2010.
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