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...answer has emerged from a careful study of some of the stationery in my office. The community-defining text for today is the single word, Veritas: Truth.What is the opposite of Truth? In the first place, Truth opposes Error. A university with the motto Veritas should counter wrongness and contemn it if it turns out to be willful. Why should a judge, rather than a university, be the first to state authoritatively that “The doctrine of ‘intelligent design’ [is] a religious strategy” rather than a scientific one? We have unanimity...
Coles does not consider the possibility that the reason some may oppose school prayer springs not from doubt, but instead from faith in a different, less popular God than Jesus. And one wonders why in this instance the dissenter's very loneliness does not inspire compassion rather than contemn from Coles...
...Mississippian, I am constantly confronted with the contemn many South erners hold toward even the name TIME because of its supposed strongly biased commentaries on race. Yet the view of Wallace's Alabama [Sept. 27] is outstandingly accurate and fair...
...Colonel. Hamilton was the bastard son of a French-English mother and a Scotch father who lived together apparently with full approval of the community on the West Indian island of St. Kitts. At the age of 14, Hamilton confided to a friend: "My Ambition is prevalent that I contemn the grov'ling and the condition of a Clerk or the like, to which my Fortune &c. condemns me and would willingly risk my life tho' not my Character to exalt my Station. I shall Conclude saying I wish there...
...William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea...