Have you ever noticed that as some people age they have a tendency to say less and their thoughts sometimes tend to be "wonderfully concentrated?"I think it was Dr. Samuel Johnson who first suggested that "the prospect of being hanged in the morning wonderfully concentrates the mind." If true then that may help to explain some of Michael Novak's recent essays. I read a short one this morning in First Things online about Truth and Freedom. I recommend it to everyone. From Wikipedia comes the picture to the right. It shows an older Dr Johnson concentrating on his newspaper and maybe also demonstrates his weak eyes. One would have thought he would be holding the paper at a distance.
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