Carolina QuotesPlato was disturbed by written discourse because … if an individual goes to it with a question in his mind, it “always gives one unvarying answer.”
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
p. 95
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
- locator
- p. 95
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