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Revealed Propositions and Timeless Truths
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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‘The formulas of advanced English politicians are as stiff and arrogant as the formulas of theology. Truth itself becomes distasteful to me when it comes in the shape of a proposition. Half the life of it is struck out of it in the process.’
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