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Australian letters

21 July 2016

1:00 PM

21 July 2016

1:00 PM

Dumb ox

Sir: I am surprised that Noreen from Queensland would expect to find balanced opinion in the pages of the Spectator. My reading of the Speccie is inspired by ‘the dumb ox’, Thomas Aquinas: “there is no better way of conceiving the truth and keeping falsity in check than by arguing with people who disagree with you.”

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