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• Title: Peter Bauer and the Third World.
• Author : The Cato Journal
• Release Date : January 22, 2005
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 219 KB

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I am deeply honored to be able to speak to you tonight, but feel slightly guilty that I am here under false pretenses. I am not one of the preeminent scholars, as the program has so generously suggested, and among whom I now find myself, or indeed a scholar of any description, but rather a mere part-time scribbler. My sole qualification for speaking is that I was a friend of Peter Bauer's, a man of whom, above all other men whom it has been my privilege to meet, can it truly be said that to know him was to love him. When I think of him, I recall Dr. Johnson's beautiful tribute to his friend, Sir Joshua Reynolds: "Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse." I don't think Peter's wonderful character was entirely irrelevant to the development of his ideas. In an age that often has difficulty in distinguishing earnestness from seriousness, and lightheartedness from frivolity, he was upright, honest, fearless, and fun-loving, which are not qualities, need I tell you, that always or even often go together. He did not think that life was inevitably, or ought to be a grind, or that all enjoyment must be deferred until the world be made right. And he was fundamentally optimistic in the sense that he believed ordinary people were perfectly capable of creating decent lives for themselves in the here and now, if only we--that is to say, the intellectuals of the world--would get out of their way and stop filling their minds with poison.

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