Word: obscurantists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wells. Biggest push was made by inexhaustible little Novelist Herbert George Wells. In a letter to the London Times he called for a statement of Britain's war aims so written as "to appeal very forcibly to every responsive spirit under the yoke of obscurantist and totalitarian tyrannies...
...speech is the more compelling in these days when the liberal spirit in the world at large is in deadly peril. Every student at Yale should be impressed with the conviction that only through the spread of the liberal attitude in life can the nation find protection from an obscurantist reaction on the one hand or a blind revolution on the other...
...remember being very worked up about the problem in hand and refusing to quit till I had my say. I was very doctrinaire in my defense of the (I suppose) obscurantist position that it all didn't amount to that. That progress was a myth and science just encouraged it to be one that we had been better off hundreds of years ago when people had never heard of progress and never stopped their plowing for a minute to think of it. That we lived and ate and sang and suffered and died and we had better do them...
...sojourn in Europe are many and obvious; moreover, unless there should result a hegira to the Continent in large numbers--which would be extremely unlikely--it is difficult to see why the University should object to men financially able in taking advantage of this opportunity. It should abandon its obscurantist tactics and put the transferral of credits on a rational basis, recognizing that for some men a year spent abroad may be of great value. This would make it possible for these men to get credit for an entire year's work in a reputable European school, without going through...
...Hercules is myth merely? Two years later Junior Fosdick decided to remove God from his universe. Mean while, he had suffered such agonies of doubt as come only to those who are at once religious by nature and intellectually robust. But serenity returned when God came back stripped of obscurantist makeup. Harry Fosdick was graduated head of his class. Third Crisis was essentially physical, for never again was the Fosdick faith con founded. Dr. Fosdick's is not a brilliant mind : Dr. Fosdick achieves brilliance. No preacher can equal his combination of simplicity and polish. This he gets...