Word: hereticism
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This book is a sequel to The Sword in the Stone, shows faintbrained, sweet-natured King Arthur confronted with the first problems of his position: how, with horn-rimmed Merlyn's help, to defeat rebellious kings; how to enlist Might in the cause of Right. Half-fantasy, half-burlesque...
The Committee's warning against the "second rate heretic" does not apply to Mr. Hicks, who is indisputably of the first calibre. Certainly his views are now "inadequately represented" in the English department, and he can be justly called a "thoughtful rebel," a type of scholar whom President Conant declared...
> Theodoric, Bishop of Cervia, Italy, an unsung surgical hero of the Middle Ages, insisted that infection and formation of pus, contrary to popular medical opinion, was not necessary for successful healing of a wound. He insisted that wounds be kept clean and dry. So fellow practitioners-who continued for hundreds...
Long since defunct are the Cathari, the Patarini, the Albigenses, many another sect denounced as heretical by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. But the heretic Waldensian Church, born of social and religious restlessness in the 12th Century, still exists as the world's oldest evangelical Christian body...
The institute withheld details of its method, reserving them for the second letter to be issued one month hence But Secretary Miller plainly indicated what the Institute's method is to be. Most common device of the propagandist, said he, is to pin a bad name" on his opposition...