If a group of reasonably sane, loving, articulate, informed individuals build a house, a theory, a dream, or a city, together, does not that edifice have more reality, in some sense, than a reality any member of the group grasps by finger in the wound or by good report? Is not the edifice "self-evident" in a more real way?
Very good talk. Looking forward to Spencer's new book. But that was a slide of Andrew Dickson White, not John William Draper!
If a group of reasonably sane, loving, articulate, informed individuals build a house, a theory, a dream, or a city, together, does not that edifice have more reality, in some sense, than a reality any member of the group grasps by finger in the wound or by good report? Is not the edifice "self-evident" in a more real way?