Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wishful thinking should not blind us to Japan's capacities. She may be expected to succeed, up to a certain point. The great danger is that Japan will succeed only half-way,--destroy in large areas the control of the Chinese nationalist government and yet lack the means to maintain really stable puppet governments. In short, the Sino-Japanese problem has barely been created. The one certainty is that trouble will continue in China for many years to come
...Vagabond is one of those energetic souls who has a healthy dislike for people who spend their lives telling others how to conduct themselves and yet never manage to accomplish anything worthwhile themselves. Of a temperament eager and alive to things new, and yet not blind to what has come down from ages and generations past, he delights in old works which have so breathed the breath of life that they still cast their influence on people today, and he takes pleasure in the men who interpret these old works to a new age, a new generation, in the light...
...Hebrew Old Testament. Really the chronicle of the Jewish tribes from earliest recorded times right down to the Christian era, a chronicle which took those people through some of the most amazing adventures that you can read about in any literature, a chronicle occasionally incomplete--full of blind spots, times when the race seemed to be swallowed up like Jonah from the face of the earth--nevertheless this chronicle, this story, has had as much to do with shaping the course of world affairs for the last nineteen hundred years as any other single factor. And not only...
...that teachers who are predominantly sound are dull, or backward because they are conservative. In every department of the University will be found professors who have led the parade in their field. It would be insulting to the average student to name them: they are legion. It is equally blind to claim that the faculty has been bred on "booklearning which destroys enthusiasm," when the ranks of every school in the University are filled with men of reknown not just in Cambridge, but in the country over, for their achievements in their chosen line of endeavour...
...using such a place as Harvard as a sounding board for the spread of their youthful ideas. But that is only half, or even less, of the picture. For when real intellectual prowess makes its appearance on the field the young and old of Harvard delight to lend ear. Blind enthusiasm cannot be substituted for thought, nor can real thought fail in the end to win its way through to the heart of Harvard...