The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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The Importance of Religious Melancholy
He's a very moderate moderate kind of man. He liked to go and listen to the um The bargemen talking and swearing and the more they swore he would laugh in his sort of you know in his democratist junior kind of Um, but he likes ordinary people. That's one of the things that comes out of this But one of the great bits in the in the introduction Preface is he his his utopia, which is a rather kind of extraordinary utopia where he suggests that there should be common ownership of of hospitals and a sort of a proto national health service.
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