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There are 200 venereal-disease clinics for civilians in England and Wales. But, as in the U.S., no law requires the diseased to go to them. Britain's Defense Regulation 33B makes treatment of venereal diseases compulsory only when two other people can be found who will assert that they have been infected...
More Science. Huxley's answer to the argument that science is insufficient to man's needs and aspirations is to demand more science: "When men assert that the scientific approach is incomplete it is because they have not been willing to follow it to its final conclusion, or because they are mistaking an early stage in its growth for full development...
...time the Constitution had been ratified, Americans were racing to Europe to assert the superiority of their institutions. The Beards do not stress the audacity of this intellectual aggression. They do not need to. The words speak for themselves. The old distinctions of American thinkers into Federalists and Democrats, agrarians, mercantilists, industrialists, capitalists lose importance in the face of united insistence abroad on the superiority, the inevitable future growth of America. Not only Jefferson, John Adams and Tom Paine were united in this. Benjamin Rush, Surgeon General during part of the Revolution, calmly declared after it that two-thirds...
...area slightly larger than that of Mexico today, a population equal to that of Denmark, the world's smallest army, the least impressive fleet that sailed the seven seas and the longest defenseless coastline in the civilized world, John Adams, who was considered conservative, rushed to Europe to assert the superiority of American institutions he had helped create. When Hitler wanted to impress the Germans he told them their victories would last 1,000 years. Adams was less cautious. He told Europe the institu-[tions America had already built before 1800 "will not wholly wear out for thousands...
...Action. Precisely because he writes as a layman for laymen, Lawyer John Foster Dulles' paper is of special importance. He says: "There are those who assert that during war our thoughts should be of nothing beyond military victory and that the Christian virtues should be laid aside and dependence placed upon primitive emotions. The demand that Christians thus choose between Christ and State is one that can be and must be rejected. To reject it involves no disloyalty to State, for what we are seeking for the American people is nothing that will prove a weakness. Our purpose...