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“Avoidance Is Not Purity”: An Ode on the Pence Rule

May 7th, 2018 | 4 min read

By E. J. Hutchinson

By Eric Hutchinson

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?”–King Solomon

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E. J. Hutchinson

E.J. Hutchinson is Associate Professor of Classics at Hillsdale College, where he also directs the Collegiate Scholars Program. He is the editor and translator of Niels Hemmingsen’s On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method.