The myth and philosophy from which Cicero and Virgil draw their images of the primordial realm make the rhetography of their precreation discourse much richer than that found in Jewish and Christian precreation discourse of the period.

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

Universality underlies the aggregatability of labour, while mobility implies the proportionality of money value to labour time.

He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.