It was he, after all, who noted to the Abbé Morellet "that God wants us to tipple, because he has made the joints of the arm just the right length to carry a glass to the mouth, without falling short of or overshooting the mark."Related post: Intelligent Design.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Evidence of Intelligent Design?
Ronald W. Clark, Benjamin Franklin: A Biography (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983; rpt. Edison: Castle Books, 2004), p. 150: