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Saturday, January 24, 2009

On the Origin of Ideas

"Few discoveries are more irritating than those which expose the pedigree of ideas."
 - Lord Acton, "Review of Sir Erskine May's Democracy in Europe" [1878], reprinted in The History of Freedom and Other Essays.