Monday, January 26, 2009

Another odd couple ...

... Lincoln and Darwin. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

"There are two kinds of intelligence," Gopnik writes at the end of an already-parenthetical passage about Darwin's intellectual sensibility, "the analytic ability and the aphoristic gift."

I think this a dubious dichotomy - and it reminds me of what someone once said, that there are two kinds of people: those who think there are two kinds of people and those who don't. I'm among the latter.

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