Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
The Ralston College Podcast
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Do You Know Anything About the Past?
I'm going to move now to the first of many questions i hope that we'll get a chance to get through. First one listener asks, it is frequently observed that present day adolescents are often polite to the point of docility. Is this somehow connected to their lack of knowledge about the past? And why does it now seem to be desired by many that the young not know too much about the Past? Well, i am not sure that docility is the first characteristic i have noticed to adolescence. Again, i think perhaps they divide into two, those who are docile and polite, sometimes to an alarming degree. But there are also quite a lot of adelescents who are
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