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  1. Mark Helprin _ Digital Barbarism

    Humanity requires for its understanding and governance not science but art,
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  2. Mark Helprin _ Digital Barbarism

    to cite Montaigne, "Nature always gives us happier laws than those we give ourselves."125
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  3. Mark Helprin _ Digital Barbarism

    We have been so enthusiastic in our welcome as to be obsequious-to machines.
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  4. Mark Helprin _ Digital Barbarism

    The Parthenon is a pleasing building, and Mozart's Fifth Piano Concerto a pleasing work, because each makes use of proportions, relations, and variations that go beyond subjective preference, education, and culture into the realm of universal appeal conditioned by universal human requirements and constraints. A life lived with these understood, even if vaguely, will have the grace that a life lived unaware of them will lack.
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