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...governmental personnel for its size than any country on the continent, with the exception of the Portuguese colony. British educational system has produced a breed of half caste intellectuals and semi-sophisticates facile in the superficial expressions and manners of the Western life for which they have prepared. Their intellect worldliness separate them sharply from their homes and villages, but their education has not allowed really them to understand or share the bureaucratic and scientific traditions in which they will work...
Monuments of unageing intellect...
BANKS: The routine chores required to keep money transactions straight, Ramo argues, are "as unsuitable for the human intellect as pulling huge stones to build the Pyramids was for human muscles. Some day, currency and coins will be only for the rural areas. If you buy a necktie or a house, your thumb before an electronic scanner will identify you, and the network will debit your account and credit the seller...
...contrasting names of the four men who created element 103 are characteristic of U.S. science, which wears its "democracy of the intellect" mantle with a casual air and generally opens its door to everyone regardless of national, racial, religious or social background...
...point to a deeper relationship between the rise of scientific method and the various types of anxiety. The misapplication of this method, coupled with a strange mixture of rationalism and naturalism, may be costing man his spiritual soul. Paul Tillich suggests that man has been "divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality." Perhaps our spiritual anxiety indicates that we are not completely lost...