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...discovery of what God has willed governments to be. "The state of nature," he said, "has a law to govern it, winch obliges everyone: and reason, winch is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions." (This grouping of life, liberty and material wealth is fundamental to Locke, who also declared that "government has no other end but the preservation of property." Similar pronouncements have often appeared in the Colonies. "Life, liberty and property" were cited as "natural rights...
Eleanor Herbert is a consummate self-deceiver. In her youth she entertained a succession of university students on the grounds that "there was no harm in making love, if they could first refer to Bertrand Russell." Imagining herself to be a literary talent, she rewrote a story 23 times until it grew "simpler, clearer, more barren each time...
...liability of the holder in due course, few of them were really effective because merchants and lenders found loopholes. Another complaint is that the rule will force small lending institutions to do costly additional work in screening contracts. That, in turn, could lead to higher interest rates and thus harm low-income people who most need installment credit. Perhaps. But the last thing needed by any American, rich or poor, is credit to buy products so shoddy that no one will stand behind them...
Though I am most reluctant to keep alive the furor over my recent article on standards in medical education, I must rebut any specific misstatement attributed to me that seems to support the charge of racism and to harm the black community. I would therefore note that in an article last week Judith Kogan quoted from my publication "It is cruel to admit students who have a very low probability of measuring up to reasonable standards." Unfortunately she omitted quotation marks and inserted "minority" before "students...
...here Hellman's anger serves her well. She is still angry enough at American intellectuals and their reluctance to follow the simple rules of decency--"to try to tell the truth, not to bear false witness, not to harm my neighbor, to be loyal to my country"--in the first half of the fifties to be even more angry at their attempts now to glorify her. Hellman claims she feels little against the McCarthys or Nixons, whom she regards as merely the leaders of a movement in search of a scapegoat. Her anger is instead directed towards "the people...