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...through the field of science there exist such opposed arguments, yet a deep faith in the infallibility of scientific investigation clings to minds that have long since rejected faith in the infallibility of the Church. Critical perception is dulled by the glamour of famous names; so that the educated world, from being priest-ridden, has become expert-ridden. The coming of Dr. de Sitter is an exemplary occasion for the expression of scientific agnosticism...
...Athens, where Premier Eleutherios Venizelos of Greece might have offered hopeless encouragement to Cyprus' revolutionaries, the foxy old Greek statesman mercifully said: "The question of Cyprus does not exist between Greece and Great Britain. It exists only between Britain and the Islanders...
...struggles of the damned springs Fashion, full-armed, and Gossip, first instruments of human culture and advancement. That these necessities have found a spokesman on Beacon Hill is a subject for congratulation. Such literature flowers from the good sub-soil of snobbery, without which no society could exist, a pale flower, but unquestionably an orchid...
...great people, the English, and they have long memories, but they lose their perspective all too frequently in the maze of their personal love or hatred. In a comfortable way they think of King John as a potty beggar who through some physiologic error had been born to exist without a heart...
...essentially a training in the ability to choose. In modern life this ability is made negligible, both because of the bewildering number of things to choose from, and because the pressure from our collective institutions demands allegiance or outlawry. The luxury of liberalism may therefore be said to exist only in the universities or among the idle rich. The outlaws cannot afford to be liberal: they must be radical...