Word: intellection
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...spiritual intellect's great work...
They go in strongly for flat statements at St. John's in diagnosing the ills of modern education. Their aim is to remove "the state of intellectual bastardy in which the average college graduate today rejoices." To legitimize his intellect the St. John's student spends four rigorous years learning to know his intellectual forefathers...
...students told us that in the seminars they get the integration of ideas and an exciting feeling of fruitful inquiry as the result of formal argument. "Our seminars are devoted ultimately to the revival of faith in the human intellect and its most glorious use in speculative and explorative thought," Dean Scott Buchanan has written...
...Williams, the Soviet leaders of today are "doped by their own propaganda" and the Kremlin "has brought the level of intelligence of all Russia down to its own. . . . The Kremlin actually was surprised and deeply resentful of the fact that the Finns shot at them. . . . The Slav intellect can't understand anyone fighting for such an abstract thing as freedom. . . . The trouble with Russia is that it's large but not great. The myth of the mighty Red Army has been shattered and Stalin can never regain the lost prestige of the Finnish debacle...
...deliberately deprived of the elements of true judgment," this is hardly its own fault. It has been misled by its chauvinistic leaders, who, as his Lordship should remember, could only ascend to power in a Germany that had been crippled by Allied chauvinism at Versailles. Thus, if the German intellect has suffered a general blackout, Lord Halifax and his peace-loving generation should take their full share of credit...