I know this guy's been dead for like a hundred fifty years but I still hate him and I can't read anything he says without wanting to vomit on my keyboard: Thomas Babington Macauley . He's an abolitionist who says things like this: "I have no knowledge of either Sanscrit or Arabic. But I have done what I could to form a correct estimate of their value. I have read translations of the most celebrated Arabic and Sanscrit works. I have conversed, both here and at home, with men distinguished by their... read more