The Royal Society has just made all journals available free of charge back to 1665. This is from the introduction to the first issue of Philosophical Transactions, published in 1666.
True, I was almost omniscient (yet not entirely) when I was twenty years old, but, as you know, people grow stupid when they grow older. I was much less omniscient when I was twenty-eight, and still less now.
Leszek Kolakowski, “My Correct Views on Everything: A Rejoinder to E. P. Thompson,” originally published in The Socialist [...]