We experts obsessed with the latest Westminster story can lose sight of what?s really important to most people
When observing politics, is it possible to absorb too much?
The 19th-century French political theorist Joseph E. Renan was scathing about his countrymen?s shallow grasp: ?The ignorance of French society?, he remarked, ?gives one a rough sense of the infinite.? Our English essayist William Hazlitt took a different view. ?You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford?, he wrote, ?than if you were to pass a twelve-month with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.?
Hazlitt?s essay was entitled The Ignorance of the Learned. I?ve been thinking about it
Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/matthewparris/article3553031.ece
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