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entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. This is Monica Perez and today we are reading the conclusion of makers of the modern mind.

So we've read this entire book, we've had a chat, and I'm going to actually do a little debriefing with William and Scott on history homos.

It'll probably be released right around the time that you're listening to this.

And I anticipate, I haven't done it yet, but I anticipate they're going to beat me up a little bit on this because this guy's a Catholic professor and there's like a perspective that is unique.

And it's, I don't know, I just

have a bad feeling about this. Anyway, let's see what he, this guy Thomas Neal says himself about

these 12 makers of the modern minds and his conclusion called intellectual imperialists.

We naturally want to know, after discussing 12 makers of the modern mind, what made them outstanding?

What essential factors do they have in common to account for their pre-eminence in the history of ideas?

How do they differ from less important thinkers? Is it sheer power of the

mind that raises them above the level of the others? Are they heroes of the intellect, the manipulators

of history that Carlisle would have them? Or are they simply fortunate figures selected haphazardly by

fate for a role shaped by economic, political, and social circumstances over which

they had no control. To answer these questions, even tentatively, we must see what they had in common,

and what distinguished to them from lesser lights, such as Nietzsche or Henry Adams. Examination of the

extrinsic circumstances surrounding these men reveals few hard and

fast conditions necessary for becoming a power in intellectual history. One thing they hold in

common is their longer than ordinary lifespans. I actually, I think quite a few of them

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