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Freedom of Thought. We cannot have "real democracy," said Author Blanshard, "unless we have access to information on both sides of all important questions . . . The Catholic hierarchy, in Canon 1399, says that no Catholic can read, borrow, buy or sell . . . any book which attacks Catholic discipline or Catholic dogma...
...sung to her mirror image by the aging Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, are largely ignored by grand-opera stars. But to 61-year-old German-born Soprano Lotte Lehmann, who for 25 years sang them with unsurpassed eloquence, they have long had the weight of dogma...
...unAmerican" about making collective society so all-important. To him, the most important aspect of education is "just that intellectual and moral development of the person as a person which these educators believe is now outmoded." But Smith also found another tyrant besides society: science. According to modern educational dogma, science should be the final test of all action; all things outside it-"man's ingrained habit of setting up ethical and moral ideals, his belief that his own life must mean something and that the universe should 'make sense'"-are "prejudices...
...poor Scottish family who worked his way through Glasgow University, Orr started as a theological student but got interested in the new dogma of Darwinism instead. Soon Orr became convinced that food or the lack of it was the reason for most human ills. "He began," one writer said, "tracking down scientific clues like a detective on the trail of a mass murderer." In World War II an Orr survey provided the basis for British food rationing. He never stopped lecturing people on eating the right kind of food; once he complained that he could get farmers interested in feeding...
Guarding America's children against classroom Communism-or any other dogma-is a good cause; no instructor who propagandizes during working hours should teach youngsters of "tender" or any other age. But the Legislature and the Board of Regents have created a protection system which provides quite a primer for New York's children, who should be learning what democracy is really like...