2 days Ago By Anthony Daniels
N ot being a systematic thinker, my reading is desultory: or perhaps it is the other way round. My reading being desultory, I am not a systematic thinker. At any rate, I derive great pleasure from unexpected and serendipitous connections.
For example, recently I bought a book second-hand for next to nothing, titled Keeling Letters . It was published in 1918 and had a preface by H.G.
Wells. I felt slightly guilty that I did not know who Keeling was, though the title suggested that I ought to do so. He was thirty when he was killed in Flanders during the First World War.
He was a Cambridge graduate of marked ability and radical views, though he was moderating with age and probably would have ended up a reactionary had he lived. Among his earlier ideas was that the institution of the nuclear family should be destroyed, and he did his little bit in this direction by marrying early, having two children and then more or less abandoning them to his wife. He was an amusing and.
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