Word: rationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lessing as a Rationalist," Professor Howard, Widener...
...Lessing as a Rationalist," Professor Howard, Widener...
...blessings. Many a governor followed in the wake of the President's example. But not in Michigan-for there, Governor Alexander J. Groesbeck casually produced a Thanksgiving Day proclamation without any reference to God. Three days before he issued it, he had received a letter from the Michigan Rationalist Association urging him not to "give thanks to any God, Almighty or otherwise...
...Maurois accepts the latter half of Plato's apothegm: "There are two kinds of causes; one necessary, the other divine," and agrees with Vauvenargues: "Genius depends largely on our passions." The three compact dialogs of the present volume, between a young platonist-aristocrat lieutenant and his old rationalist-radical tutor, run widely and vigorously over the pros" and cons of the proposition: A leader of men is born, not made...