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...open to debate, but the fact that our rapidly changing development, scientifically and materially, has produced distraction resulting in a considerable flight from God, whatever the word may signify, personally or externally, has been much asserted. Professor Munn's opinion that we trust too much to human intellect, and will not learn to pray until some overwhclming experience forces us to our knees, is applicable to many of us in this age which considers itself so self-sufficient. Even more significant is the common acceptance of the past as hopeless and the future as not worth worrying over. The faith...
...practicality of the scientist, for the gradual introduction and extension of the plan have insured its success. President Conant felt that the idea provided a chance, well worth society's while to offer, for a few individuals of exceptional character and ability who lacked financial means to develop their intellect in a great university such as Harvard...
...news from Russia and Germany almost daily illustrates the intellectual tyranny of a totalitarian state. There can be little room, indeed, for a nonconformist in a country where the Minister of Education declares: "The old idea of Science based on the belief in the supremacy of the abstract intellect is finished. The new Science is sharply differentiated from the conception that its honor lies in the everlasting nature of the search for truth." And now much room for spiritual freedom is there in a land where one of the scholars writes that "The teachings of Marx and Lenin have been...
...youth or that he is fit to be put at the head of a college in a country situated in Virginia. A man who can do what he has done, take arms for a cause which nothing but his intellectual approval could justify his serving but which his intellect condemned is hardly a fit person either to train or to 'influence' young men. No amount of good talk now or hereafter about the 'duty of the citizen towards the general government' will ever do away with the effect of his example.... No crime against society to which faction or sophistry...
There is no denying the fact of specialization and its progressive intensity. But there is likewise no denying its miring effect on the intellect and the crusty narrow insolence of the specialist who may know his field but little else. The theme is all-pervading, whether the man be a worker turning one bolt on a factory belt or a student of history endlessly annotating the private life of Napoleon...