A complimentary reference to Teilhard de Chardin cannot be allowed to stand in a forum about rationality unless a link to this classic book review by Peter Medawar is also present.
Ah, yes. I had almost forgotten the context. This thread began with your observation that we modern rationalists tend to refrain from praise-speech and worship-speech lest we be mocked by someone practicing Medawar-speech. Isn’t it sad Sacchin?
Well, that is true. But personally, I tend to find the cadences of Medawar’s scorn to be every bit as exalting and ennobling as Mussorgsky’s overture.
A complimentary reference to Teilhard de Chardin cannot be allowed to stand in a forum about rationality unless a link to this classic book review by Peter Medawar is also present.
Yes! Chardin’s writing certainly seems like praise or worship, but I’m not at all sure that it’s saying something correct.
Ah, yes. I had almost forgotten the context. This thread began with your observation that we modern rationalists tend to refrain from praise-speech and worship-speech lest we be mocked by someone practicing Medawar-speech. Isn’t it sad Sacchin?
Well, that is true. But personally, I tend to find the cadences of Medawar’s scorn to be every bit as exalting and ennobling as Mussorgsky’s overture.