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    <body><![CDATA[I've been meaning to read Wilson for a while now, but I regret starting with this. While his wish to unite the various academic disciplines into a single corpus of knowledge seems to come from the right place, his actual efforts to explain what such a system would look like are dull, meager, and at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78594741">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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