Pope, when explaining his views to me, invoked not Rand but the great political philosophers.

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Galileo soon began to have doubts about this orthodoxy, which he aired in conversation with friends and then in correspondence with other natural philosophers in Europe, particularly the great German astronomer Johannes Kepler.

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After returning to the U.S., Hubbard wrote a series called Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, brief biographies of poets, essayists, artists, philosophers, famous women and musicians, which grew to 14 volumes.

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