Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...translations, one of a Spanish sonnet, another of an address by Anatole France to French students. This address is a plea for vision--"Agitate and dream; and above all, oh, above all do not be too rational"; a plea for tolerance--"Be not fanatic, even with the fanaticism of acquired truth, which may react against grander truths, as yet half discovered"; a plea for universal peace--"The Rome of the Caesars attempted it, when she was queen of the universe. May your generation accomplish it!" It is not likely that there is a man in Harvard who by learning that...