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Venice was not mentioned once in my formal schooling in America. And that’s terrible because in many ways, Venice foreshadows the rise of the commercial maritime republic of the USA. When every other state was ruled by the divine right of kings, Veni
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Introduction “Social distinctions can be based only on common utility.” —Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, article 1, 1789
“If reason ruled the world would history even exist?”
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“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
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“I would say that the ability of people to agree on matters of fact not immediately visible—states of affairs removed from them in space and time—ramped up from a baseline of approximately zero to a pretty high level around the time of the scientific revolution and all that, and stayed there and became more globally distributed up through the Cronkite era, and then dropped to zero incredibly quickly when the Internet came along.”
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