Microcosmographia Academica
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Microcosmographia Academica
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Microcosmographia Academica is a short pamphlet on university politics written by F. M. Cornford and published in 1908. It has acquired a small cult following as a pessimistic view of academic politics presented in a readable and lively style, and is best known for its discussion of such principles as "The Wedge" and "The Dangerous Precedent": The book is also known for Cornford's definition, in the preface to a later edition, of propaganda as: "that branch of the art of lying which consists in
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1908 pamphlet by F.M. Cornford
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