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...Fear of Nothing. When Communist dictators claim Svoboda as their own, when Communist slave masters accuse capitalism of slavery, Americans blame "Communist propaganda." But, Davenport points out, the trouble is deeper than that, for Communist propaganda appeals to "human universals" in the name of a new view of man-materialist, dialectical man. "Our enemy is not any particular nation. It is not any particular army. It is not even any particular form of government. It is this Idea of Man." The U.S. finds itself frustrated in fighting this idea to the extent that the U.S. itself shares it. If often...
...seminar on leading contemporary philosophers at New York University, Professor Sidney Hook once asked his class: "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" "Russell is a materialist," said one student. "An idealist," said another. "A realist," "a rationalist," said still others. The students quickly got the professor's point-that there was an element of truth in each of their answers. "The next time anyone asks you, 'What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?' " Professor Hook said, "the correct answer is 'What year, please?' " In his 83rd year, Bertrand Arthur William, Earl Russell is busier...
...House of Representatives in Canberra, Prime Minister Robert Menzies proclaimed last week that Australia (pop. 7,500,000) would stand behind U.S. policy in Asia. "Armed aggression must be met by armed defensive power," said Menzies, "for this is something, and perhaps at present the only thing, that the materialist Communist dictators can and will understand . . . The time has come when we must present a common front backed by a common power...
When Gollwitzer left the labor camp for the Krasnogorsk indoctrination center, he set out to steep himself in the Marxists' explanation for this Russian misery. The theoreticians there seemed convinced that their system, with all its temporary drawbacks, would ultimately produce a materialist heaven on earth-Theologian Gollwitzer called it a "secularized Christian eschatology." Accordingly, they reasoned themselves into a 1984-type "dream world." Russian professors argued that the prisoners must see things "dialectically." For instance, if the Kremlin planned to erect a magnificent city street on a row of squalid huts, it was as good as there already...
...Rhine reproaches scientists in general and psychologists in particular for their refusal, by & large, to accept the evidence of their extrasenses. He compares them with those who refused to look through Galileo's telescope. He assails the materialist bias of the times for creating a climate hostile to his theories, though he admits that he cannot yet "prove" them by conventional standards...