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23 August 2024, around 18.23.

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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