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"All over the neighbouring countryside were those sleepy hamlets and half-vacant villages, each with its Norman or Early English church of flint and stone. And in these churches a peculiar silence had been stored, along with the sweet damp smell of plaster, the mouldering prayer books, the embroidered kneelers and the Victorian altar cloths with their gold and emerald fabrics, like robes left [by] some angel" (p. 89)
— Jun 24, 2019 01:19AM
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Bakunin
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"This incomparable discipline was responsible for all that was best in higher education in England: the independence of judgement, seriousness of attitude and ability to make a case and defend it, which were the marks of the educated English mind" (p.166)
Scruton on the fact that college student have to defend an essay to a don every week. Interesting! (And most likely true)
— Jul 03, 2019 11:14PM
Scruton on the fact that college student have to defend an essay to a don every week. Interesting! (And most likely true)
Bakunin
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"What they found [in modern England] was a machine, run on 'technologico-Benthamite' principles. True culture had been wiped out by a mass-marketed substitute, and real feelings replaced by sentimental fakes. As for 'life', you could only find it in the records of a vanished age" (p. 38)
I am fascinated by Scrutons account of England. It is quite unlike the nations which I have lived in (Sweden, Germany, China).
— Jun 15, 2019 05:15AM
I am fascinated by Scrutons account of England. It is quite unlike the nations which I have lived in (Sweden, Germany, China).
