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The misanthropes.(Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World)(Book Review)

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Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World, by Wesley J. Smith (Encounter, 219 pp., $25.95)

LEO STRAUSS found it telling that Machiavelli mentioned only one other figure who served as the teacher of princes, the office that Machiavelli was claiming for himself. And that was Chiron the centaur, who was aptly constituted to be a tutor of princes because he was half man, half beast. It was Machiavelli's instruction, of course, that the one who would rule men, and learn the artful uses of cruelty, would have to detach himself from the inhibitions that exist in moral beings. Strauss observed that anyone who would seek in this way to transcend or evade nature would have to ...

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