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...Boston Globe publishes private e-mails Lewis wrote to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53 in their feud over grade inflation. Lewis has contested Mansfield’s claims about grade inflation, particularly his assertion that it was caused in part by an influx of black students to the College in the 1960s...
...Mansfield quoted two opposing statements from John Locke to demonstrate two different views of the Genesis story. He said Locke’s idea of “Men being all the Workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise Maker,” contradicts Locke’s assertion that man is “absolute lord of his own person and possession...
...These opposing statements of Locke’s frame a contrast between our two political parties today, the churchgoers in the Republican party believing that man is God’s property and the secularists who congregate among the Democrats believing that man belongs to himself,” Mansfield said...
...Mansfield then turned his attention directly to the issue of abortion, addressing the belief of abortion-rights-activists that a women’s body belongs to the woman alone...
...Mansfield also said that while humankind has dominion over living things on earth, it must be responsible in its use of that ruling power...