The Intellectual Life, Continued | Episode XXVII
New Humanists
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What You Really Want to Know About Roman History Is What You Want to Know
If you just do the broad survey of everything and just extend out indefinitely, you're only ever able spend a little bit of time on anything. So it's better to know wa something well and then, by analogy or by contrast, understand other things. Eplied u wy, i really understand this, like i really understand in roman history. And from there, i can have category, i have narratives by which i can think through other things. I don't know much else to say than what the most popular popularizers have said: likethe spark notes, theversion of all t things.
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