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n. - Hatred of reasoning.

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  • At a time when the American electorate is finally rejecting the misology of class warfare and Keynesian government interventionism, along comes a so-called “free market”...
  • He had imagination enough and intelligence enough to perceive that they are the most pestilent of all the enemies of mankind, the sombre hierarchs of misology, who take...
  • But a love of knowledge for itself, and for pure ends, would never produce such a misology, but only a love of it for base and unworthy purposes.
  • It has been well said that the theme of the Faust is the consequence of a misology, or hatred of knowledge, resulting upon an original thirst for knowledge baffled.
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