Abstract
The account is worth reading in its entirety, but the part that concerns our present purpose begins with a description of Kuhns graduate seminar: "an odd collection of people" drawn from various departments and venues, presided over by the intense chain-smoking magister, who alternated his continuous consumption of cigarettes between unfiltered Pall Malls and low-tar True Blues, lighting each new smoke off the glowing end of its expiring predecessor, and then dispatching the latter to "a massive cut-glass ashtray filled with the debris of an endless series of burnt-out butts." [...]her judgments are never to be trusted as final or ultimate. [...]although Christians can have no expectation that there will be a sure correspondence between worldly success and metaphysical "success," neither can they expect that the two will invariably be at odds. [...]in using him, we also need to read his words with an understanding of die things that they presumed but did not openly state. [...]we may need to read Whig Interpretation as much to move beyond it as to appreciate it.