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The Origins of Cultural History: 3 – The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians

Isaiah Berlin

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The Purification of Text and the Restoration of Wisdom

Tribenian was taken to pieces, and alpion was restored. Valla went further than this and said that words must be understood as the people use them,. That all kinds of monstrosities been bred by philosophers which had blind men's vision. If you eliminate all these voses, niulae, all these words which mean nothing at all, then you might get some cind odotion of what these people ware really talking about. When you have done that, there is some chance of progress. This is the original, so to speak.

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