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precepts

rather dramatic clouds over Portland

It is most surprising that men have believed they could make rules take the place of such a talent. It is almost as if they wanted to reduce genius to precepts.

—Jean Le Rond d’Alembert (Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot, trans. Richard N. Schwab, p. 34)


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