The Dream-Childs Progress and Other Essays
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c o n t e n t sIntroduction 1Prelude: A Holiday Reading List (Books from a Vanished Library) 5The Dream-Child’s Progress 15Upward and Onward 31The Music of Eternity 37Origin of the Specious 43Obama and the Lama 53The Dawkins Evolution 57Haiti’s Devils 63Six Years in Tibet 67Believe It or Not: On the Very Disappointing Literature of the New Atheis 73Hypatia Reassembled 91Taking Liberties: Orlando Furioso Dissacrato 97Mysteries of Consciousness 105The Greatest Nation on Earth 109Charity and Patriotism: Further Reflections 113Aprés moi le deluge 119The Mysterious Stranger 125New Year’s Titanic Gods 133Golf and the Metaphysics of Morals 137“Whooshing” Through Life 143A Modest Proposal 151Polite Discourtesy 157A Person You Flee at Parties 163Farewell to a Mountain 169The Desire of the Nations 173Patrick Leigh Fermor, RIP 179Le Mot Juste 183Saith the Prescriptivist, Nothing New is Transpired Under the Sun 189Luminous Wisdom 195The Needle’s Eye 201The Inertia of Reputation 205A Dream for Our Political Season 211In Praise of Good Bad Books 217Brilliant Bad Books 221Therapeutic Superstition 227The Long March 233Japan’s Epic 239These Fragments Have I Shored 245The Nietzsche of Recanati 251Reason’s Faith 257Vinculum Magnum Entis 263Traditio Deformis 269Romans 8:19–22 275Saint Origen 281Habetis Papam 287A Dialogue Upon the Island 293Fie Upon Phi 297The Scholar and the Nymph 303Mammon Ascendant 309Our Atheism is Different 321Getting to Larisa 327Christ’s Rabble: The First Christians Were Not Like Us (and a Coda) 335
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