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For voters ten years is a short time in politics | The Times

We experts obsessed with the latest Westminster story can lose sight of what?s really important to most people

When observing politics, is it possible to absorb too much?

The 19th-century French political theorist Joseph E. Renan was scathing about his countrymen?s shallow grasp: ?The ignorance of French society?, he remarked, ?gives one a rough sense of the infinite.? Our English essayist William Hazlitt took a different view. ?You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford?, he wrote, ?than if you were to pass a twelve-month with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.?

Hazlitt?s essay was entitled The Ignorance of the Learned. I?ve been thinking about it

Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/matthewparris/article3553031.ece

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