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...small elite of dedicated people carried on science in the eighteenth century he said. With only one scientific journal and no systematic teaching at all on the Continent, collaboration among scientists was limited to visits and letters. This lack of communication was an element which alowed the advance of modern scientific method...
...Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, an outstanding example of the bourgeois professional in African politics (he is a physician), France's staunchest friend in this Community, and leader of the moderate element in French West Africa...
...portrayal of the John Birch Society as "wayway right" of the main stream of the current conservative movement in this country. There is a deplorable tendency in some journalistic quarters to lump the "sane" conservatives, represented by Senator Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr., with an "insane" element, represented by Robert Welch and his "Birch-Barkers...
...going to be easy to normalize the situation. We will have to spend a great deal of money on armaments and troops. But even if we manage to put down the rebellion, we still face an even more difficult and serious problem: to make the colored element return to work once again in peace with the white element. The work of a century, overturned in a month...
...Faith in divine revelation was succeeded by belief in individual experience. The supernatural was discarded in favor of the natural. Acceptance of authority changed to defiance of authority. Reverence for king and church was transformed into an impassioned ardor for "liberty" and "the rights of the individual." A new element was in the air: doubt. The Age of Reason had unbolted one of the doors of intellectual history. From that time on, man has had to sit in the chilling and bracing draft of an open mind...