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Acknowledgments

To Charlotte

My chief thanks go to Herbert and Sheila Oakes, without whose help and encouragement over many years this book would not have been written.

I am also grateful to my publishers Toby Mundy and Alice Hunt, and to Julian Baggini, Jason Cowley, Tim Crane, Charlotte Foley, Daniel Ghossain, Tariq Goddard, Rebecca Ivatts and my former tutor Alan Thomas, whose teaching style sparked off the idea for this book.

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