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The British Are Supposed To Be Particularly Averse To Intellectuals, A Prejudice Closely Bound Up With Their Dislike Of Foreigners. Indeed, One Important Source Of This Anglo-saxon Distaste For Highbrows And Eggheads Was The French Revolution, Which Was Seen As An Attempt To Reconstruct Society On The Basis Of Abstract Rational Principles.

After All, If You Do Not Resist The Apparently Inevitable, You Will Never Know How Inevitable The Inevitable Was.

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Like All The Best Radical Positions, Then, Mine Is A Thoroughly Traditionalist One.