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Interview: Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli's Mandragola | The New Thinkery Ep. 76

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The Bible Contradicts Itself

Hervey: It seems to me that machiavelli's bible does not speak unequivocally about evil. So, for example, go forth and multiply on one hand, no adultery on the other. And in the case of lot's daughters, who thought they might be the last, maybe not women on earth, but maybe jews on earth,. There seems to be some excuse, perhaps, forr what the daughters of lot are said to have tried to do. Lesn i wasn't going to mention it or in o, to repopulate teus to have a picture painting of law's daughters. But then my wife made me take it downrajogis an old print

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