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Tom and Jerry1 or What Price Pelagius?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Jonathan Harrison
Jonathan Harrison
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham
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Extract

Once upon a time Dr Thomas Svengali was walking by the side of a lake when he saw some children playing with their boats. They were model boats of course, but it was possible to control them by short–wave radio. In this way they could be made to go through all the manoeuvres which life–sized boats could execute, but in an unrealistically jerky way, like mice pretending to be elephants.

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Religious Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 1981 , pp. 559 - 563
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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References

1 A careful scrutiny of the surviving remains of twentieth-century philosophers reveals no record of there having been a philosopher of this name. [Ed].

2 It was in fact Alexander not Faustus who did this [Ed.]