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...Euclid & God. Even as a boy, he disliked rules. He mastered geometry at eleven, but resented having to accept the axioms of Euclid. Years later, this spark of rebellion touched off an explosive book, Principia Mathematica, in which he and the late great Alfred North Whitehead treated mathematics as "a branch of logic," and armed philosophers with a complex thinking tool known as "symbolic logic...
There are other examples, based on far less apocryphal stories, of the process doing some good. Einstein's skeptical attitude towards Newton's is one; the geometricians' distrust of Euclid is another. Bentham refused to accept the "natural laws, natural rights," theories of previous economists; Susan B. Anthony skeptically disagreed with the idea that only men could vote. None of these people claimed to be right or wrong in the absolutist sense of Father Feeney; they simply questioned the status quo. And in every case their questioning has helped mankind along. As long as man keeps on scratching his head...
...kind of phantomlike day in a Midwest spring to inspire adventurers. A warm south wind blew across Lake Erie. On the narrow beach at the end of East 185th Street in Euclid, Ohio, a group of small sea-rovers collected excitedly around a yellow rubber raft. A few hundred feet out in the lake, drifting away in the offshore wind, was a derelict canoe-the legitimate prize of anyone who could salvage her. The rubber raft (Navy surplus), which Dickie Bauer, 14, had bought with money he had earned caddying, was bravely launched from the beach...
Night and cold closed down over Euclid. Hour after hour Coast Guard boats methodically zigzagged over the area, sweeping the water with searchlights. A cold front came out of the west bringing a sharp, high wind with it. At daybreak a B-17 bomber, Air National Guard planes, two Navy PBYs and private planes joined the hunt for the adventurers. At 7 a.m., the B-17 spotted Dickie Bauer's raft 25 miles from Euclid, near Fairport Harbor. The bomber lost it in the morning haze and tumbling waves, but 2½ hours later spotted it again...
Nearly a thousand Protestant and Catholic Sunday-school teachers crowded last week through the pillared facade of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Temple and jammed its high-domed auditorium. Three-quarters of them were women, but there were also some Presbyterian elders and Methodist deacons. Most of them had never been in a Jewish place of worship before. This was the first Institute on Judaism for Christian Teachers...