March 17, 2007
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For St. Patrick:
The Comparison of the
Catholic Church and the
Kingdom of Fairies by Thomas Hobbes “One of the best examples
philosophy has to offer of
so-bad-it’s-good.
Brilliantly funny,
but Very,
Very, Wrong.”– m14m.net
See also yesterday’s
Log24 entry on Hobbes.
Comments (1)
“In what shop or operatory the fairies make their enchantment, the old wives have not determined. But the operatories of the clergy are well enough known to be the universities, that received their discipline from authority pontifical.”