clash of civilizations

mixed metaphor

occupation / innovator as

historian

scientific organization

British Academy

university teacher

scientist

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Philosophical Society

nationality

British

World War II

innovator in the field of

history

is a real danger. It is crucially important for the West to not be provoked into an equally historic but also equally irrational reaction against the irrational anti-secular vision of the islamic world.

But even Lewis warned against buying entirely into the Islamist vision by overreacting to it. 'It is crucially important,' he added. 'That we on our side should not be provoked into an equally historic but also equally irrational reaction against that rival.'

is cured by obliging the patient to draw a picture of the result.

The cure for mixed metaphors is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

Bernard Lewis

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