And, to top it all, heoftendoubted whether, hismindbeingevolved, he could even trust it in such matters. All in all, he wastoocomplex, too subtle aman to be left to thepolemicists.
I'm regularly amazed, for instance, at the overly-deferential welcome reserved for visiting writers, scholars and polemicists, some of whom are granted a star status here that they could never hope to achieve at home.