Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...worked out a mechanical theory of bowed strings and violin tone, and a theory of musical instruments. Seven years ago he made a brief visit to California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, rendezvous of Nobel Prize winners. Word from his Chair of Physics at Calcutta University is scientific dogma. Last autumn he received a Nobel Prize (TIME...
...heresy", the progressive attitude of the present Pope sems phenomenal, but the whole world has become tolerant and the Catholic church has had to follow. It never was a leader in this movement, nor has it yet sanctioned the liberal individualism of today. It remains a hierarchy based on dogma, but because of the broad-mindedness of its recent pontiffs has seemed to be in step with the times...