Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of a liberal education be the achievement of a balanced and unprejudiced view of the world then nothing more exactly adapted to this end can be imagined than the study of history, its benefits are at least two. The first of these rests upon the axiom that history repeats itself. Of course it never does, precisely, and yet in another sense it is always doing so, and the student of history discovers in the experience of the race data which alone can enable him to understand intelligently the environment of the present. The past in ninety-nine hundredths...
...will admit. But when there is no effective center of gravity larger than the club to draw men of different interests together, there is great danger that the clubs will lead to mold men into types, to stamp out individuality, and to promote a certain smugness based upon the axiom that "Difference from like is the measure of absurdity...
...less efficient judicial system was established so that no longer did it profit the individual to do what was unprofitable for everybody to do. Thus, the whole was made to equal the sum of its parts again. It remains for the League of Nations to establish that fundamental axiom in national ethics...
...Nathan may have had more psychological training above Cayuga's waters than did Horace above the Fountain of Bandusia, he knows little more of men. A liar is nearly always a liar. But he is only more obviously a liar when drunk. And when Mr. Nathan disputes the axiom of his elder he is missing this point. But then one cannot expect an eclectic critic to realize every point when there are so many pages to write and so many schnitzels...
Surely the philosopher's axiom "nothing known is worth knowing" paradoxically fits the present case. Dr. See has but admitted what the people of the time of Copernicus less statiscally expressed". Of course the fact that he has expressed it counts for something. In a nation whose state of civilization remains a bone of contention for all gnawing intellects, the existence of one man who can honestly say that he has spent a lifetime in study and glimpsed, even glimpsed Nothing, implies a certain criterion of progress...