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Contents Preface ix 1 Hope and Reason 1 2 Neither Slave nor Master: Reason and Emotion 11 3 “Nothing but Dreams and Smoke” 41 4 Reasons End: Tradition and Common Sense 61 5 The “Sacred Tradition of Humanity” 79 6 Truth and the Pathos of Distance 119 Conclusion 137 Notes 141 Index 163 ...

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