Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ability by Dr. James Hyslop, appears to have fallen on evil days and no longer to be actuated by pure and disinterested motives. For this reason, Dr. McDougall explained, it has been thought necessary in the interests of science to found another society which shall be committed to no dogma or hypothesis and whose business shall be to investigate and record facts by scientific methods and with the help of special sciences and of photography...
...heresy, he leaves a pulpit where for six years he has preached with the bold courage of his broad convictions. Today he is probably the newest and the greatest force in modern religious thinking and as such he comes in contact with the stern limits of the Presbyterian dogma...
...What are my crimes and that of my Government? We are laymen and we are fighting for laicism, which is not an aggressive doctrine. We stand for freedom of conscience and we protest when in this 20th Century an attempt is made in the name of dogma to constrain conscience and when we are told, as our ancestors were told in the Middle Ages, that Science and Liberty are idols...
Tariff Reform. Canadian Liberals, like their elder brothers in Britain, are confirmed free traders, but here the analogy has to be reversed. Protection is as much of an accepted political dogma as is Free Trade in the Mother Country, with this great difference: a swing from Free Trade to Protection in Britain would not have the immediate consequences that a swing from Protection to Free Trade would have in Canada; for, in the latter case, the country would be thrown open to the exploitation of the U. S. mass production magnates, against whom the comparatively juvenile industrialists of Canada could...
Instead of so airy and fragile an educative purpose, about as comprehensible as pure theology, it is plain that the aim of education is not to implant in young intellects any given set of dogmas--even the very interesting dogmas of the dogma-hating Mr. Mencken. Education does not ignore the issues that confront the modern world, but, avoiding the ex cathedra dictation of belief, tries to lead the student to reason for himself, to cull and consider to become a thinking atom in a difficult universe of conflicting purposes...