Reading A Text Is More Like Tracing

Schizophrenic Language Has In This Sense An Interesting Resemblance To Poetry.

What Persuades Men And Women To Mistake Each Other From Time To Time For Gods Or Vermin Is Ideology. One Can Understand Well Enough How Human Beings May Struggle And Murder For Good Material Reasons - Reasons Connected, For Instance, With Their Physical Survival. It Is Much Harder To Grasp How They May Come To Do So In The Name Of Something As Apparently Abstract As Ideas. Yet Ideas Are What Men And Women Live By, And Will Occasionally Die For.

Being Brought Up In A Culture Is A Matter Of Learning Appropriate Forms Of Feeling As Much As Particular Ways Of Thinking.

I Attacked Dawkins's Book On God Because I Think He Is Theologically Illiterate.

There Is An Insuperable Problem About Introducing Immigrants To British Values. There Are No British Values. Nor Are There Any Serbian Or Peruvian Values. No Nation Has A Monopoly On Fairness And Decency, Justice And Humanity.