Approach the book nearest you and open it up to a random page. Point to the first sentence you see. What does it say?pic.twitter.com/jKIp4VWWpl
"Apart from this Egypt, a land rich in corn, must have been a more desirable land for the central government than the more distant `Irak or Mesopotamia, for we find that soon after the conquest the growing needs of Medina were supplied by regular imports of corn from Egypt."
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For those curious, from 'The Cambridge Medieval History':https://books.google.com/books?id=9lHeh36S8ooC&lpg=PT638&ots=PPD-GqSwSj&dq=been%20a%20more%20desirable%20land%20for%20the%20central%20government%20than%20the%20more&pg=PT639#v=onepage&q=been%20a%20more%20desirable%20land%20for%20the%20central%20government%20than%20the%20more&f=false …
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Which conquest of Egypt? I thought corn was coming from America and brought to the world after 1492
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In England corn means grain.
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"The postulate or common understanding involved in speech is certainly co-extensive, in the obligation it carries, with the social organism of which language is the instrument, and the ends of which it is an effort to subserve."
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Did you find that in the Wodehouse novel or are you actually reading Types of Ethical Theory?
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