That record was about the seductive power of “the aesthetics of wealth”—fashion runways, status brands, velvet-rope glamour—with the sorcerous allure of artifice and illusion seemingly left unchallenged.

Ahlook, his townsmate, is perhaps less progressive, but his deportment is splendid, and his kind temperament and willingness make him a friend of all.

The defendant is cognizant that this is a serious charge.

I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order … And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation. Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables … Western reason had entered the 'age of judgement'.