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[Tom Parmenter]

I just added a quotation to [[1911 Encyclopedia Britannica]].  It
reads in part:

      One leaps from one subject to another, fascinated as much by the
      play of mind and the indiosyncrasies of the authors as by the
      facts and dates.  It must be the last encyclopeaedia in the
      tradition of [[Denis Diderot|Diderot]] which assumes that
      information can be made memorable only when it is slightly
      coloured by prejudice. -- Sir Kenneth Clark