Word: agnosticism
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Friendly toward the A. S. P. C. A. and the American Humane Association, although the friendship is not entirely reciprocated, are numerous national and local antivivisectionist societies which devote their energies to attacking scientists who use animals for experiments. To them antitoxins and serums produced by infecting animals with disease...
And though not the first agnostic who ever lived, he was the first to call himself so.
...score-&-ten are more serious than their juniors on the subject of the future. After that lonely milestone, many an agnostic joins the comforting company of the faithful. But last week stout-hearted Hamlin Garland, though he is five years beyond the warning mark, still kept to his lifelong agnosticism. This intransigence was the more remarkable because for 45 years he had been an eager investigator of spiritualism. Last week he submitted his lifetime's report on psychic research. Its sober findings will be respected by followers of both camps but will give little aid & comfort to either...
Though he remains an unorthodox agnostic, for all his optimistic idealism, Upton Sinclair thinks there is much good in Coueism and Christian Science, much that is unfathomable in spiritualism. From Coue he evolved his own cure for insomnia, an endlessly repeated: "God is here, and God is now. God is...
Like most experiments, Mother is thrilling for a while. Along about the sixth scene, however, playgoers indifferent to or agnostic about Communism begin to feel that the production is solemnly, insufferably pretentious, that the narrative of the old woman who loses a son and a husband but still gallantly waves...