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...meaning and puffed up into one of those empty abstractions which multiply confusion and distort thought. Who can say what it means to the people who are so zealous for their children's attaining a college diploma, or to those to whom Education of the People is society's cure-all? Vocational training, perhaps, or the ability to quote Homer or recollect statistics from so-and-so's history of the U.S. manganese industry, or "soundness" on current problems, or contacts and prestige...
Even when properly considered, though, education is still no automatic cure; the most palpable of idiocies often enough issue from the best of scholars. But the spirit which stresses honest, relentless inquiry, which requires that convictions be arrived at only after study, that they be defended firmly enough to withstand the assaults of formulae men yet held lightly enough to give way when further investigation demands--in short, the spirit of a liberal education--is far superior to the haphazardness of uncritical belief. Such a spirit can only refine values and reconcile them to facts, whereas blind acceptance only leads...
...Sick Man was feeling pretty weak when all at once there appeared on the market two wonder drugs which seemed to cure precisely what ailed him. They were called Cinerama...
...bookworm (he often has to look up the spelling of medical trade terms) and not much of a laboratory researcher. Dr. Johansen never gave up hope that somebody, somewhere, would find a drug to cure leprosy. He worked conscientiously with the sulfas. Then, at the end of World War II, came the sulfones, such as Diasone, Promacetin and sulphetrorie...
...They are not specifics," says Dr. Jo, "but they cure secondary infections and halt the spread of the disease. Nowadays, if the disease is caught in its early stages, the patient can be treated here for two or three years, and then has a good chance of being discharged without any disfiguring signs. After that, he can be treated by his own doctor." For the future, Dr. Jo has still more hope: "Within our lifetime we shall have a cure...