Great intellectuals like Abelard, Erasmus, Galileo, Voltaire, Zola, and Russell each challenged the pieties of his era, and we now regard their success as a good thing. But most of us are likely to recoil at the methods they used in their work as intellectuals: caricature, deception, and even fabrication.
Grandes intelectuales, como Abelardo, Erasmo, Galileo, Voltaire, Zola y Russell impugnaron las devociones de su época y ahora consideramos positivo su éxito, pero la mayoría de nosotros retrocederíamos ante los métodos que utilizaron en su obra como intelectuales: caricatura, engaño e incluso mentira.