Word: unreasonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace as it was in the war, Versailles and its aftermath might never have happened. If America wishes, as President Conant seems to desire, to participate in the next peace--as it did not do in the last--and to bar a solution based on vindictiveness or unreason, then America must herself...
...first thing that biology should teach humanity: "All men are created unequal. No politics or poetry or dogma in this; just a straight clean fact of prime importance to decent thinking on human social problems; and possibly a fact that must be learned, digested and assimilated . . . before unreason ceases to be a threat to all forms of democratic government...
...search for truth as one of the highest duties of man; it regards noble human character as the finest product of evolution: it considers the service of all mankind as the universal good; it teaches that both human nature and human nurture may be improved, that reason may overcome unreason, co-operation supplement competition, and the progress of the human race through future ages be promoted by human intelligence and purpose...
CHAPTERS FOR THE ORTHODOX-Don Marquis-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week, as usual since the world began, plain readers were more inclined to listen to the sweet unreason of kindly old fellows like Will Rogers and Don Marquis than to the expert kidding of more incisive minds...
GRAVES (Robert) Poetic Unreason...