The Doubter's Companion (43 page)
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Authors: John Ralston Saul
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3
PROGRESS
âProf. Andrew Watson (Toronto), 26 June 1993. See also
The Islamic City
, ed. A.H. Hourani and S.M. Stern (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1970), Chapter on Housing and Sanitation, 174â194.
4
PUBLIC RELATIONS
âSmith,
Mussolini
, 144.
R
1
ROTTEN BOROUGH
â
The New York Times
, 25 January 1993, A13.
S
1
SAT
â
The New York Times
, 28 February 1994, A12, “New SAT sets students cramming.”
2
SCHOLASTICISM
âDiderot,
L'Encyclopédie
, vol. 2, 15, “Ecole (
philosophie de 1'
),”
“
â¦scholastique,
qui a substitué les mots aux choses, et les questions frivoles ou ridicules, aux grands objets de la véritable philosophie; qui explique par des termes barbares des choses inintelligibles ⦠Cette philosophie est née de l'esprit et de l'ignorance â¦on raisonna sur les abstractions, au lieu de raisonner sur les êtres réels: on créa pour ce nouveau genre d'étude une langue nouvelle, et on se crut savant, parce qu'on avait appris cette langue. On ne peut trop regretter que la plupart des auteurs scholastiques aient faits un usage si misérable de la sagacité et de la subtilité extrême qu'on remarque dans leurs écrits.”
3
SCHOLASTICISM
âFrederick Copleston,
A History of Philosophy
, Vol. II:
Medieval Philosophy
(New York: Image Book, Doubleday, 1993), 312.
4
SCHOLASTICISM
âInnis,
The Bias of Communication
, 80.
5
SCHOPENHAUER
âLeni Riefenstahl,
The Sieve of Time: The Memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl
(London: Quartet Books, 1992), 178.
6
SCHOPENHAUER
âCopleston,
A History of Philosophy
, Book 3, vol. VII, 263, 277.
7
SEX
âJohn Ralston Saul,
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason
(New York: The Free Press, 1992), 488.
T
1
TALENT
â
Milano Citta
, Spring 1993.
2
TASTE
â
The Spectator
, 20 February 1993, 39.
3
TECHNOCRAT
âJohn Ruskin,
The Stones of Venice
, 1851, Everyman's Library, ed. Ernest Rhys (London: J.M. Dent & Co., n.d.).
4
TECHNOLOGY
âJohnson,
Dictionary.
5
TECHNOLOGY
âCharles de Gaulle quoted in
Charles de Gaulle, jour après jour
, Olivier Germain-Thomas et Philippe Barthelet (Paris: Nathan Press, 1990) 53, “...
les sociétés préservent la liberté, la sécurité et la dignité de l'homme. On ne voit pas d'autre moyen d'assurer en definitive le triomphe de l'esprit sur la matière
.”
6
THINK TANK
âEdited by Alan J. Day,
Think Tanks: an International Directory
(Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1993).
7
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
âRobert Dassanowsky-Harris, “Wherever you may run, you cannot escape him: Leni Riefenstahl's Inner Migration, Self-Reflection and Romantic Transcendence,” from Nazism in
Tiefland
, 1994, unpublished paper.
8
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
âAnalysis by Elizabeth Kolbert of “The Living Room Candidate: A History of Presidential Campaigns on Television, 1952â1992,”
The New York Times
, 17 July 1992, 81; an exhibition at the American Museum of the Moving Image, New York.
9
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
âAnton Kaes,
From Hitler to Heimat
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989), 5.
10
TRUTH
âEngraved over the fireplace in the living room of the house Frank Lloyd Wright built for himself in Oak Park, Illinois.
V
1
VISION
âEuripides,
The Bacchae and Other Plays
, translated by Philip Vellacott (London: Penguin Classics, 1954).
2
VISION
âShiva Naipaul,
North of South
(London: Penguin Books, 1980), 119.
3
VOLTAIRE
âVoltaire,
Dictionnaire
, vol. 6, 350, “
Lettres, Gens de Lettres, ou Lettrés
.”
“Les gens de lettres qui ont rendu le plus de services â¦ont presque tous été persécutés.”
W
1
WESTERN CIVILIZATION
âTwelve-ton statue of George Washington by Horatio Greenough, 1840. Placed in the Capitol. Inspired by Phidias's Zeus.
2
WISDOM
âVoltaire,
Dictionnaire
, vol. 8, 128, “
Sens Commun
.”
Z
1
ZEALOT
âJohnson,
Dictionary
.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many of the people who made
Voltaire's Bastards
possibleâeven if I don't name them againâhave offered advice and information, answered desperate phone calls at strange hours and been good enough to disagree in long discussions.
Adam Bellow and Cynthia Good have again given great help as editors and applied their imaginations and persistence. Indeed, the enthusiasm of everyone at Penguin Books and The Free Press has been very important to me.
Laura Roebuck and Donya Peroff have been a constant support. Advice, information, criticism and dozens of other forms of help have come from Alain Chanlat, Anoukh Foerg, Pier Daniele Napolitani, Hans Wuttke and Jagoda Buic, Scott Sellers, de Montigny Marchand, Noël and Dominique Goutard, Christine Klose, Elisabetta Sgarbi, Rolf Puls, Gilbert Reid, Margaret Atwood, Niels de Groot, Jean-François Garneau, Mary Adachi, Charles Rubinsztein, Matthieu Debost, Francesca Vallenti and my good friend, Father Joe Maier.
WORD LIST
A
à La Recherche du Temps Perdu
B
C
D
Davos (The Annual Conference of the World Economic Forum)
E
Electors of Bristol, Address to the
F
G
H
Holy TrinityâLate Twentieth Century
I
J
K
L
M
Monarchs, In Particular, Royal Alliances
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