there have been long and glorious periods in european intellectual history where universities were held in profound contempt by the leading lights of their day lets review the university in early modernity
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milton: cambridge was a "feast of sour thistles and bramble and other sophistical trash" hobbes and leibniz didn't bother working at universities and heaped contumely on professors in france, degrees were freely sold
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more generally, universities were "purged by victorious sects, disordered by riotous students, and dominated by barren theological disputes"
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