In his Almanac ...

... Terry Teachout has been quoting from Maurice Baring's novel C. Today's is about "The point of life ... " It expresses a sentiment with which I thoroughly agree - one at odds, I think, with the sentiments (if such they may be said to possess) of those I like to think of as evangelical rationalists. But who was Maurice Baring? Joseph Epstein's Maurice Baring & the good high-brow will fill you in.