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"It is an outrage that they should be commonly spoken of as
Intellectuals. This gives them the chance to say that he who attacks
them attacks Intelligence. It is not so. They are not distinguished from
other men by any unusual skill in finding truth nor any virginal ardour
to pursue her. Indeed it would be strange if they were: a persevering
devotion to truth, a nice sense of intellectual honour, cannot be long
maintained without the aid of a sentiment which Gaius and Titius could
debunk as easily as any other. It is not excess of thought but defect of
fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no
bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of the chest beneath that
makes them seem so." ~C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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