It's simple: it's the oldest race of its kind; the course is beautiful; and — here's the most important point — everything about the race is natural, free.
To such thinkers as Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce, the claim that, in the absence of some all-embracing system of a teleological or quasi-scientific kind, the course of history could be regarded as constituting nothing better than a meaningless chaos appeared to be totally unacceptable.
On genre he wrote: Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind;…expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend….
Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind;…expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend….
But, whatever the kind of the course, knowledge is always beneficial and it is something that can never be separated from a person.
He collected nearly 3,000 antiquities of diverse kinds over the course of his life – statuettes of Greek, Roman and Egyptian gods, Assyrian fertility statues and, of course, plenty of phalluses – and in their own way they evoke the most primitive and unreconcilable parts of the human mind.
It's the kind of course the Americans would embrace if they actually believed they had an advantage.
That, said E. Virgil Conway, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, is the kind of result the course aims for.
In the first place, I think there is a need for the kind of experience the course provides.
It will face stern competition from bigger, more established brands, however - with more announcements of this kind expected over the course of the next couple of days at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
I think it's important that we've all kind of stayed the course and we've all been pretty positive about it".
