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...integrity while reading only one side of a question, and most economists, sociologists, and historians represent only one side of the problems which they treat. The handling of the history of the American Civil War, to cite one instance, has till only very recently been replete with prejudice and bias, fictions and mistakes, merely because most of the men who dealt with the subject were Northerners, incapable of analyzing events and trends truthfully. Not even Hans Sachs would have to point the moral...
...mention only the article which brought this most forcibly to my attention: that published last Friday on the field of Economics. I speak of the article because I have some special competence upon the subject of that field of concentration. And yet I must claim to be free from bias on the subject of Economics a, since I do not instruct...
...Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century philosophers" Professors Becker has attempted "to show that the underlying preconceptions of eighteenth-century though were still allowance made for certain important alterations in the bias, essentially the same as those of the thirteenth century." It is an arresting thesis and it is skillfully handled...
Though some Irishmen have learned to write English very well, the language is even less native to Ireland than it is to the U. S. The typical Irish writer wears his English with a difference. Racial bias toward tragic fancy, racial prejudice against successful fact give the Irish writer a peculiar angle on even plain Saxon themes. Author Stuart's theme is patriotism-which to an Irishman is partly like politics and partly like being in love. His tale, which starts realistically enough and wanders through dirty Dublin streets, ends toward the stars...
...called Re-Thinking Missions,* November choice of the Religious Book Club. Excerpts published in the Press had already caused mutterings. But Re-Thinking Missions proved to be well-knit, sincere, lucid, the work of 15 able men and women whose diversities of creeds and interests seemed to preclude collective bias. Thoughtful Protestants had withheld comment until the appearance of the complete report. They now agreed?whether or not they agreed with all the Commission's opinions ?that it was a major milestone in the development of church doctrine, church organization both home and abroad. And slowly the realization grew...