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Uncle's Advice

God? Come-come, dear boy, you'll have to change your stance. Believe in something real — like History, or Chance. Richard Kell......

Holy, Holy, Holy

Clear air, clear water, spires above the meadows. Four centuries away from gigs and demos, rapt music filled the chancels and the naves and flowed like thermals past the weather......

Champion Of Freedom Still

Anthony Quinton A WORLD OF PROPENSITIES by Karl R. Popper Thoemmes, £5, pp. 51, available from Thoemmes Antiquarian Books, 85 Park Street, Bristol BSI 5P.1 S ir Karl Popper is......