All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.
Julien Benda Quotes
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
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| Birth: | 26th December, 1867 |
| Death: | 7th June, 1956 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Novelist, Philosopher |
About
Born into a Jewish family, Benda became a master of French belles-lettres. Yet he believed that science was superior to literature as a method of inquiry. He disagreed with Henri Bergson, the leading light of French philosophy of his day. Benda is now mostly remembered for his short 1927 book La Trahison des Clercs, a work of considerable influence. The title of the English translation was The Betrayal of the Intellectuals, although "The Treason of the Learned" would have been more accurate.
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