Word: dogma
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...second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate braininess, dug up an Aleutian skull larger than Daniel Webster's. Hrdlička concluded that U.S. life had streamlined the European body...
...Infallible formulator for them of dogma in faith and morals...
Many magazine articles and books on historical and political subjects have been published by Fay. His best-known book is "Origins of the World War" in which he destroys the dogma of German war guilt which was so popular after the armistice...
...condition for developing as rich and meaningful an inner life as possible? If we choose the latter alternative, we will have to be more genuinely religious and honest with our selves. He doesn't advocate a return to the Bible necessarily or any external application of dogma, but a renewal of respect for man as a receptacle of spiritual truth and a renewal of inner integrity and self-belief. The way to self-understanding in our present mess, Wylie thinks, is clear-headed criticism, a sample specimen of which he offers in this book. Sometimes his love of a fancy...
...theory that underlies a belief in liberal education seems to be that if you start people thinking freely and courageously, they will eventually arrive at the right conclusions. In a world as confused as ours is today, the only possible dogma is the dogma dictated by self-interest. But in the free exchange of ideas we can at least hope that truth will win out. It may be that the colleges are not the place for this kind of education. Certainly they are not the only place for it. There is, however, an opportunity in college to escape at least...