Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wright's argument is cleverly sustained, though at times loose and mystical in diction. Like all large generalizations, it is too much simplified, and some pertinent questions might well be asked. What would Titian, Hals, Vermeer, Velasquez- colorists extraordinary-have said to the charge that color was only an incident to their art? Probably they would have replied in words not dissimilar to those of Ingres, when a visitor to his studio asked: " Does M. Ingres, the celebrated draughtsman, live here...
...absurdity of any such alignment of differences is that the Fundamentalists are not even fair to themselves. The strength of the Fundamentalist appeal, like the appeal of the Roman Catholic Church, is in assertion and not in argument. The Fundamentalist triumphs by simply stating his simple faith. That is enough. But when the Fundamentalist begins to argue, he denies his faith, for his faith is either self-evident or it is not evident at all. No man was ever argued into being a Fundamentalist...
...curiously (and unfortunately for his spiritual health), the Fundamentalist is the first to rush into argument. He is the aggressor because he feels, with considerable justification, that the Modernist should get out of the old church; but he can only be ousted by being haled before an ecclesiastical court...
...debaters declare, however, that they are not in the least dismayed by having their subject snatched away. They point out that the Ruhr affair was only one aspect of the far greater problem of reparations. In the latter field they expect to find much food for argument...
Chile has completed her argument, but is desirous that the U. S. legal advisers whom she has engaged should have an opportunity of studying it as fully as possible...