-<!-- Page published by Emacs Muse begins here --><p>The full text of William James's article <em><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20768">The Ph.D Octopus</a></em> which is
-conveniently enough in the public domain, and worth republishing.</p>
+<!-- Page published by Emacs Muse begins here --><p>Thanks to the public domain I have republished the full text of
+William James's article <em><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20768">The Ph.D Octopus</a></em>. It is a rather nice essay on
+the over-reliance on academic accredation as a measure of intellectual
+worth which I find is a particularly relevant issue today.</p>
+
+<p>What makes this most interesting is that it was published in 1903 by a
+man who was seeing our present-day culture form before his eyes. Ah!
+What an exciting—or perhaps, terrifying—time the beginning of the
+20th century must have been! All of the technological <em>progress</em> in our
+time has been meaningless in contrast to our utter cultural
+stagnation. Perhaps exciting times are here for us now; perhaps the
+time has come to reverse—or transcend—the cultural <em>progress</em> of the
+early 20th century.</p>
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