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“More home truths are to be learnt from listening to a noisy debate in an ale house than from attending to a formal one in the House of Commons.”
“On the Ignorance of the Learned”
Considering that he was obviously an educated man well versed in the academic arts of being a gentlemen, Hazlitt’s scorn for other educated British gentlemen runs deep. A number of his essays contain the names of famous men in their titles and it may come as a surprise at how must many of those famous men are the object of that scorn. It would be a mistake to assume such scorn was personal, however. At heart, Hazlitt’s essays are exercises in rhetoric. His approach to a subject is not to go from the personal to the universal, nor from the concrete to the abstract. The defining characteristic of any Hazlitt essay is that he stays on topic and he argues from a position of personality rather than broad, ambiguous conceptual points like ideology. That is why he aligns with ale house drinkers over politicians or—in the clause just preceding this quote, those riding the stagecoach to Oxford rather than the students there or the professors who instruct them.