...I learned that no matter how old a philosopher might be, if still alive — make that, no matter how many years over 100 — one shouldn't presume the good fellow gone.
Michael Levy learned that same lesson when his letter to the editor published in The Wall Street Journal, November 15, 1999, included "[Mortimer] Adler turns in his grave, I am sure...".
--Terrence Berres
(via Arts & Letters Daily)