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"These essays were written for various uses and occasions over a number of years. They have characteristic preoccupations -- religion, history, the state of contemporary society -- and they are, all of them, contrarian in method and spirit. They assert, in one way or another, that the prevailing view of things can be assumed to be wrong, and that its opposite, being its image or shadow, can also be assumed to be wrong. They undertake to demonstrate that there are other ways of thinking, for which better arguments can be made." -- from the Introduction