Word: illusionality
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Santayana's position, which is essentially the necessity of illusion, will seem like a dubious, not to say mischievous, improve menton the orthodox position of the necessity for faith. Whether he has at las squeezed through the needle's eye, only a handful of scholars in the theological...
Meaning of Myth. In Reason in Religion (1905) and Skepticism and Animal Faith (1923), Santayana had tried to strip life of all illusion - which included religion - and then proposed that the reader "entertain the illusion without succumbing to it." He held that religions were myths but that myths embodied great...
The Choice. Candidate Stalin headed the slate of Communist Party and Communist-picked nonparty men. Though the results are never in doubt, Soviet elections are taken most seriously. Communist party workers scurry about factories, farms and homes, going through a complicated "primary-election" sifting process that gives millions of Russians...
"The German people today are sick; they must be taught how to recover their health. . . . They must be deprived of the dangerous illusion of their military invincibility, made to lose confidence in their military power. . . . The most urgent task is for the Allies to make the German people individually responsible...
"The spirit of the Gospels was not handed down in a pure state from one Christian generation to the next. To undergo suffering and death joyfully was from the very beginning considered a sign of grace in the Christian martyrs-as though grace could do more for a human being...