Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belief Is Blind." So great was the influence of this example that, centuries after the downfall of Rome, Europe's national states based their welfare on comparable grounds. The belief, held by nobles and peasants alike, that kings were appointed to rule by God Himself ensured the vitality and solidarity of medieval states. To those who argue that the belief was false, as well as not conducive to liberty, Ortega calmly retorts that "all belief is blind," and that liberty is nothing more than man's belief that he possesses it. "There is, in principle, no single liberty...
Precisely this fatal split occurs, says Ortega, when the faith that has given rich & poor a common belief grows old and dies. It is then that the philosopher must supply the world with a belief that will be both inspiring and practical enough to restore its faith in human cooperation...
...short-sightedness and bad faith Sheeks quoted the current policy of the United States towards the Philippine Islands which will receive their independence on July 4, 1946. "It was this promise," he claimed, "which kept them fighting for us during the long years of war. It is the belief in this promise that made them destroy their homes, made them scorch the earth, and fight from the hills...
Hero of this brief golden age was St. Athanasius, who almost singlehanded swung the Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) against the Arians* and made the doctrine of the Trinity the belief of all orthodox Christianity. In the 17th Century the Copts became prisoners of Islam. Millions of Copts were persecuted and driven from their faith by ridicule, taxes, restrictions. The Coptic language all but disappeared; the tongue of the Pharaohs survives today only in the long Coptic Mass, where it is chanted to the sound of cymbals and triangles. Coptic churches tried to escape attention by being outwardly drab, tucked...
...Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with chucklers about summer people (Mary's Neck), helped pay for his art collection with Rumbin Galleries. Tarkington on writing: "A very painful job-much worse than having measles...