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    History: Repetition

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    Whitehead said, “Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.”

    I know Whitehead said this because J. Samuel Preus quotes him in an article about Spinoza.  That’s not quite right, though: Preus doesn’t quote Whitehead, but quotes a quotation from Whitehead in a book by Robert Merton.  And now here I am quoting a quotation of a quotation of a quotation (I think that covers it, but I’m dizzy).

    Kinda confirms Whitehead’s point, which he probably learned from someone else anyway.

    posted by Peter J. Leithart on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 1:05 pm