What Hitch Got Right—and Wrong

In an ancient Indian parable, a group of blind men come across an elephant. One takes hold of the trunk and concludes this creature must be like a snake, another puts his hands around a leg and decides it must be like a tree, yet another presses against its side and concludes it must be like a wall, and so on. They get into an argument which doesn’t end, because they are all, in a sense, right.