My apology for taking the Anthropomorphic, instead of the Pithecomorphic view of nature, is that I am a Man, and not an Ape, and therefore cannot help doing so; and I admit that my idea of the Creator is perhaps as clumsy as the illustration supposes, and that I can no more imagine an abstract Creator, à la Lamarck or à la Darwin, […]

When the minute was up, John Jay managed to make the woman twice as nervous as he ran down the rules and the possibilities.

[…] judgments that are ungroundable because infinitely reflective […]

[Johnny] Mercer was blunter still about the current government, despite calling himself “inherently a team player”. “But when you go home from here on a Thursday and go for a run across Dartmoor or whatever, and you’re stripped to your core being, I mean, yeah, you realise it’s a shitshow,” he said.