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MONKEY SEE & MONKEY DO
During its heyday, the Grand Tour; whereby aristocrats sent their sons to France and Italy to study in the eighteenth century; influenced social life to a remarkable degree. It also created the basic structure of foreign travel which later generations … Continue reading
BETTER AN ITALIAN COUNTESS
It was, by any measure, the most expensive education ever devised. Its classrooms were the capital of Europe, its textbooks the ruins and monuments of eighteen centuries. From it the young aristocrat could learn, if he chose, how to eat,dress, … Continue reading
THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
O.K. its a deal the devil said…Just put your John Doe on the dotted line.Obviously, God was far too unreasonable to deal with, too intractable and demanding, pushing the faithful into the arms of the Devil for whom there is … Continue reading
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GARDENS OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Jean Jacques Rousseau’s ‘‘Social Contract” was a theoretical blueprint for a society of equals.It was at once a return to original sin within a society of unequals.It was an apex for the planet of the apes of civilization.It was a … Continue reading
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CONSEQUENCES OF AN OVERNIGHT SENSATION
”Everything is good as it leaves the hand of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hand of man” . That celebrated opening sentence of ”Emile” contains all of Rousseau’s thought in germ. All the conclusions he reached , no matter … Continue reading
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FROM WITHOUT AND WITHIN
The Western world is an ancient system that repeatedly fails to reform itself. That place where the human quality will be experienced as simply as it should be is probably the African continent itself. What cannot be avoided, is for … Continue reading
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