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<h1>William James - The PhD Octopus</h1>
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-<!-- 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>
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+<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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to guard us from a future so unmanly and so unbeautiful!</p>
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-<p class="cke-footer">And did those feet in ancient time
-Walk upon England's mountains green?
-And was the holy Lamb of God
-On England's pleasant pastures seen?
+<p class="cke-footer">* jeffcovey becomes too groggy to read the directions and becomes
+ the year's first nasal spray overdose fatality.
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- August 6, 2008</p>
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