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...scientist is fighting . , . for five hundred, yes, for five thousand other freedoms. The freedom to work, to expand the intellect, to worry through with a theory until it is validated or disproved ... to improve, if he can, everything that exists under the sun, and beyond that to create things upon which the sun has never before shone . . . the freedom to better the lot of mankind, that each generation may rise to heights loftier than any won by its predecessor." Already science offered wool from silk and silk from coal, plywoods, plastics, rustless steels, fire-resistant wood, synthetic finishes, bendable glass...
...cortex is the seat of mental power which restrains the thalamus -foresight, self-consciousness, social adjustment, imagination, etc. The reasoning, self-conscious cortex is integrated via thousands of millions of nerve cells with the emotional thalamus, so that a normal mind is a more or less harmonious mixture of intellect and emotion. But sometimes this integration takes on a fixed, unhealthy pattern: foresight becomes anxiety, anxiety becomes fear, and the psychotic victim may head for lunacy unless treated by psychoanalysis, shock therapy (e.g., with electricity or insulin) or-as a last resort -psychosurgery...
Woman & Gold. Gist of Ramakrishna's gospel: 1) Every religion is true, and a possible path to God. 2) For most men, who are slaves of their senses, a dualistic religion with ceremonies, music and symbols is necessary. Men of purer intellect can attain modified monism; they know there is a further range of experience but are not able fully to realize it. Monism, the realization of oneness of all things with differences merely in form, can be achieved only by those who reach ecstasy. 3) For each ladder of thought there is a corresponding series of duties...
...liberal education will be a casualty of World War II, says confidently: "There will be no place in the world after the war for gentlemen in the old European sense of men trained merely in Greek and in Latin, but there will always be a place for the gentlemanly intellect...
After the preamble, which assumes that "True victory. . . will come only if we have the courage to make this crusade an endeavor of intellect as well as physical force," come statements of the particular problems facing each committee. "International Political Organization," International Economic Problems," Ideologies" and "Domestic Economy": the committees for all of these broad subdivisions are planning endlessly detailed research and discussion to find something better than "peace in our time...