monkeys – On the Human http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human a project of the National Humanities Center Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:39:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Moral Camouflage or Moral Monkeys? http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2010/07/moral-camouflage-or-moral-monkeys/ http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/2010/07/moral-camouflage-or-moral-monkeys/#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:07:17 +0000 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/?p=1186 In “The Metaphysician’s Nightmare”, Bertrand Russell described a Hell in which there is a special torment for practitioners of each branch of scholarly inquiry. In the place in Hell reserved for statisticians, for example, a pack of monkeys walk aimlessly and endlessly on typewriters, each time creating a perfect rendition of a Shakespearean sonnet. Our

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