When the purveyors themselves (apparently) confess that their writing is deliberately obscure then one has to wonder a little about their intellectual integrity. Or is that just a vulgar anglo-saxon caricature demonstrating my lack of appreciation of obscurantism as a legitimate academic lifestyle choice? Well, whatever, I'm with Searle on this one.
*Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect*
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A very good book, here is one excerpt that bears directly on a conversation
I was just having: He [Bryce] regretted the low quality of the Indian Civil
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