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...Clifford's, but ventured that Clifford in the 1870's was thinking ahead of the best minds of his day. In Einstein's time the geometry of the real world lost its reliability as a frame of reference and became properly a part of physics itself. One can infer from both Newman and Russell that this inversion, an alien notion to most nineteenth-century thinkers was already half-formed in Clifford's mind...
Most of the industries which have used the defense argument have done it without any justification at all. As an advocate of free trade, I did not intend to give the impression, nor, I believe, could one infer from my remarks, that I thought that their arguments should be taken seriously. Morton H. Halperin...
...Invoking God. It is a mistake, says Samuelsson, to infer from Protestant and Puritan support for old-style capitalism that the religion helped forge the economy, or that capitalism would have developed differently in another spiritual climate: "In all religious faiths, the servants of God have invoked Him as a guarantee of the righteousness and prosperity of their own social class, their own nation, their own race-in short, their own interests. But we cannot assert that Christianity was therefore the cause of all the oppression of one social class by another that has been committed...
...spiritual doctrine, not a religion, not even a philosophy. One who understands Zen has no gods to fail him. For Zen is not a faith, but faith; not hopes, but hope; not beliefs, but belief. It has no rituals, no concepts, no symbolism. It is absurd to infer that the Eastern flavor of Zen is not worth tasting. Since Zen is simply a way of life, it knows no bounds or boundaries. The beauty of Zen is that it allows things to come of themselves, i.e., if there is enlightenment, the world will automatically become that better place...
...interested to learn from the story in the CRIMSON of November 23 that the Student Council, in its plans for Twentieth Century Week, is accepting funds from the American Friends of the Middle East, a notoriously anti Israel organization. I infer it is for that reason that no representative of Israel is to appear in the panel on the Near East and its problems, which is dominated by representatives of the Arab states.... Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities...