I need to issue a caveat before I review this book. I have never been a student of Professor Lerner, but I wish I had. With these essays, Professor Lerner again teaches a reader how to read an author who writes well. Through these six essays, Professor Lerner shows us the way that a More, a Bacon, a Burton, a Bayle, a Franklin and a Gibbon disclose to a careful reader a manner to judge and therefore moderate his or her opinion. There is a healthy skepticism in these essays particularly in an immoderate age where one believes that the line between black and white is clearly drawn and right is always on the side of the interested party.



By the dedication, this book appears to be Professor Lerner's last. One would like to say, "Say it isn't so." Professor Lerner should live to one hundred and twenty and then some more to continue to teach to those who are willing to learn how to read great books.

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