"The tragedy was deepened by the fact that both sides were right. The complaint about [sophists'] fees was unjust; short of a state subsidy, no other way was then open to finance higher education.
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Like the encyclopaedists of Enlightenment France, they swept away the dying past with magnificent elan, and did not live long enough--or think far enough--to establish new institutions to replace those that loosened reason would destroy."
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