| On p. 315 of The Profit
Motive in Ethics, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 312-322 (July, 1976),
Flew quotes Housman differently: |
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A moment's thought would have
shown him this. But thought is a painful process. And a moment is
a long time. |
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| Perhaps Flew was
attempting to recall from memory the following passage from p. xi
of the Preface to Housman's Juvenalis Saturae (revised
edition, Cambridge University Press, 1931), which is reprinted on
p. 56 of A.E. Housman: Selected Prose (edited by John
Carter, Cambridge University Press, 1962): |
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Three minutes' thought would
suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes
is a long time. |
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