[PatrickHenry]

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[Alamo-Girl]

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[VadeRetro]

Interesting that Gardner couldn't stand Mortimer Adler. My Dad bought The Great Books of the Western World for us kids in the mid-1960s. These came with a bunch of supplementary materials including "annual supplements," a whole new book on contemporary issues delivered each year. Mortimer Adler was the editor in chief of all this.

Dad died a few years ago and I've got all that stuff in my living room now. I look at those annual supplement things and read article after article which spouts liberal platitudes and glows with joy in how "The times they are a-changin'."

I want to rub Adler's nose in all that nonsense, but he seems to be dead. At least the the Great Books themselves are emminently worthwhile. Darwin's Origin and The Descent of Man are in there, of course. Long ago, I got more enjoyment out of The Iliad and Herodotus's History of the Persian Wars.