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The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes

Isaiah Berlin

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'It's Very Hard to Draw a Bridge'

'Men, in generals as he finds them, do not like leisure, don’t like peace, don't like stability. What they like is strife, hatred, struggle, passion, love violence,' says the author. 'Perhaps it is ready life with these doutlys, scotch warriors, which produce this extraordinary taste for rather rough, rather rough and rather violent forms bout or exercise in him', adds David Walliams.

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