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Remorseless Hygienic Despotism

Eric Christiansen A HISTORY OF ALCOHOLISM by Jean-Charles Sournia Blackwell, £25, pp. 232 A lcoholism is not as old as you might think, walking round the museums and noting......

Language, Truth And Pdp

Don Cupitt THE APE THAT SPOKE by John McCrone Macmillan, f13.95, pp.231 I t is so hard to imagine the first origins of mind and language that in antiquity they were often......