Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Let me try to put together, in skeleton form, the political creed of the average American citizen, the dogmas which he accepts as fundamental truths notwithstanding their repuguance to the dictates of reason and to the teachings of experience. "Government must rest on the consert of the governed." "Democracy is...
Significance. Correspondents at Paris wrote last week in an incredulous vein, as though unable to believe that the Chamber, after two years of procrastination and folly, had been galvanized into rational action. So favorable was the reaction of international financiers that the franc touched 35 to the dollar again, after...
It is certain that such a mind has not been marking time within the precincts of a dusty pedagogy during 27 years. It has a large side interest in botany, for which it has a second international reputation. And upon its central field it has driven through to fundamental strata...
All this is interesting. The rule which inspires it is certainly harmless and, if mirth be universally salutary, is perhaps good. On the other hand, it can hardly be called rational. And if it were placed officially in the limbo to which it has to all intents, been relegated, instructors...
Life. A good place for a small boy with four younger sisters is away from home. The small boy of this book?shown solemnly erect in his Sunday clothes, clutching a prayer book, over the pompous legend,"Henry Havelock Ellis at the Age of Four"?circled the globe with...