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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 New Side Was Only a Quarter of Its Original Side

There does appear to be some kind of gulf yawning between th italian and french scholarship. In the seventeenth century, there were these two great establishments, the most gallicus o the most italicus. The children brought up in the french manner on the mathematics and te logic of descartes wild grow up completely shrivelled and intellgent intellect alized. So the warfare was already on. But it was nothing to the great wars between the lawyers, between the supporters of the mosque galicus and the most itaricus. Let me read you a fairly typical em passage from one of the french lawyers. Am quoted by, quoted byby by gent by tin gentiles.

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