Word: dogma
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...more frequently acted upon than taught the precepts of his calling. He knew no strict creed, beyond the dogma of the useful life. His mind and spirit were the only art which he possessed, yet they were manifest in all he did or said. As a teacher he was more interested in developing keen and unaffected minds than careful theologians. As a minister he sought to instill the precepts of his Christianity in the minds of his people. As a beleiver in religion he cared less for what it was than for what it might...
...wish, with him, to "bash." The Elderly Lady over the head, then extending to her our apologies, but never our regrets, so exasperatingly well has Minna Phillips caught her tone. Nor must we forget Leo G. Carroll as Private Meek, and the others who declaimed G. B. S.'s dogma in superb fashion...
Powder to launch his projectile Spengler derives from the dogma "Man is a beast of prey." But he is essentially not only a carnivore, he is also an inventive carnivore. With every fresh invention Man advances further outside the bounds of Nature. To maintain his unnatural position he soon finds it necessary to band together into societies; within these societies men divide into the leaders and the led. Invention, technics become more and more complex: "The pace of discovery grows fantastic, and withal . . . human labor is not saved thereby." Knowledge to design and manage the machines becomes the leaders...
...professor and later as commandant of the Ecole de Guerre, from its high pulpit he taught the army's teachers his theories of military strategy. By books, by word of mouth he popularized the doctrine of Attack, until it became dogma to the French. "This theory, which really rested on the sentimental assumption that Frenchmen were braver than Germans, certainly simplified the role of the leader. For directly an enemy was sighted he had merely to give the order, 'Forward.' " Biographer Liddell Hart, more concerned with military strategy than patriotic ardors, puts the armies' battles, from...
...years of Depression brought "Coin" Harvey again to the fore with all his old remedies for relief. To his rococo amphitheatre rimmed around with huge signboards inscribed with his fiscal dogma, he summoned his followers, and announced: "Usury has its deadly grip on all governments. A new political party must come quickly into action or civilization itself will be lost. The people have awakened. The hour is at hand...