Word: faith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promptly correct ''an error'' concerning democratic equality. Says he: "This dogma is now breaking down under the blows of the experience of the nations. It is, therefore, unnecessary to insist upon its falseness. But its success has been astonishingly long. How could humanity accept such faith for so many years? The democratic creed does not take account of the constitution of our body and of our consciousness. It does not apply to the concrete fact which the individual is. Indeed, human beings are equal. But individuals are not. The equality of their rights is an illusion...
...epochal in racial history!" Gently chiding good folk who think of marriage as something sentimental and religious with all bodily details omitted from consideration until after the ceremony, Dr. Campbell reported: "A decided tendency is now to be observed in enlightened minds no longer to place implicit faith in rhetorical principles which have no foundation in fact, and to explore the realities of nature...
...Press last week was the fact that President Roosevelt has withdrawn the moral approval which 165,000,000 Russians were happy to think he extended when he recognized the Soviet Union (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Until they read that President Roosevelt has charged their Government with flagrant breach of faith (TIME, Sept. 2), that Moscow replied last week by rejecting and refusing to argue the charge, and that Secretary of State Cordell Hull thereupon recorded the Red breach upon white paper for future reference (see p. 11), Russians will continue to believe that Moscow & Washington are the best of friends...
Social Credit Is What? Few Alberta voters seemed to know much about Social Credit last week, merely having faith in Messiah Aberhart's assurances that it is not Communist, does not seek to abolish private property or Capitalism and is a positive sock at "The Bankers...
...economic pontiff, William Aberhart makes his followers sign pledges that they accept Social Credit "on faith," forbids them to debate or argue its merits...