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Tempus Edax Rerum

Paul Johnson A HISTORY OF CIVILISATIONS by Fernand Braudel, translated by Richard Mayne Allen Lane, £25, pp. 600 T his book should not have been pub- lished here, at any rate in......

A Beastly Business

Anthony Daniels HOW WE DIE by Sherwin B. Nuland Chatto, £15. 99, pp. 278 N o matter how many times we are told by philosophers that life would be deprived of its meaning if we......