Word: preceptions
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...somewhat glum conclusion: "So wait till the Generation Y quant people hit Wall Street." When this occurs, at least one Generation X precept is unlikely to be disproved. As one quant said last week, "If you make money, ) nobody calls you a geek...
Love thy neighbor. A simple precept all too difficult to practice. So when the lion and the lamb do lie down together, everyone is surprised. Hate is such a ferocious force that we are awed to see it fade away. Yet we have seen that happen with amazing speed in the past four years as one of the two great conflicts of our age vanished: the Berlin Wall fell, the cold war ended, the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, in a moment that astonishes the spirit as well as the mind, the other great enmity recedes as Israelis and Palestinians embrace...
Brown's editorial is also similar to the Peninsula issue in that he asserts things that are simply wrong. According to Brown, Gomes says we have "no way of drawing any legitimate precept from the Bible of the Fathers." I don't know whose sermons Brown has been listening to. Certainly not Gomes's. I've heard every sermon preached in Memorial Church this year and I remember quite clearly hearing Gomes say not once but many times that the Bible is the source of moral precepts. The writers of Peninsula cannot both champion the cause of open debate...
...considered the magnitude of the freedom that Gomes has won us through its absence, whereby we are at liberty to estimate every inconvenient argument drawn from the Bible or the Fathers as false and deceitful. The Rev. Gomes has powerfully demonstrated the impossibility of thence deriving any moral precept, and thereby won us a perpetual liberty from their gloomy and awkward dictates...
Since (as he has taught us) we have no way of drawing any legitimate moral precept from the Bible or the Fathers, we discover all moral matters to be doubtful. And by the Rev. Baxter's precept we discover that, in all doubtful things, we are entitled to liberty. How pleasant a license is this doubt, and what a well-deserved sop for the distressed conscience...