Consistent performance, anyway.

I’ve just finished reading “The Man Who Made Lists”, a biography of the creator of Roget’s Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall, who announces that he’s an American in the style of his writing, making a trip to the end flap of the jacket unnecessary. One thing that struck me was that the information that the Royal Institution went from hero to zero in Roget’s lifetime (in the 19th century) – just as its older brother, the Royal Society, did in the 20th century. The R.S. used to be very highly respected 20 or 30 years ago. Now, it’s just a temple to the Great Global Warming religion and as discredited as the R.I. was 150 years ago.