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...dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports . . . Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles...
...They were as unstable as water," T. E. Lawrence wrote of the Arabs in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, "and like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves, they had been dashing themselves against the coasts of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed . . . The wash of [each] wave, thrown back by the resistance of vested things, will provide the matter of the following wave...
...tentatively scheduled now, the first "After College--What?" discussion will be held in Leverett House some time in the next three weeks. It is planned to keep the groups small so that a more informal atmosphere will prevail...
...sake of emphasis let me state this position somewhat extravagant First, all thinking is dangerous, if "dangerous" is meant the possibility arriving at opinions different from the which prevail in the community. Second, all important questions are controversial, if by "controversial" is meant that there are at least two sides that can conceivably be taken, for if two sides are not already taken, the attempt suppress a question will, make it controversial...
...sake of emphasis let me state this position somewhat extravagant First, all thinking is dangerous, if "dangerous" is meant the possibility arriving at opinions different from the which prevail in the community. Second, all important questions are controversial, if by "controversial" is meant that there are at least two sides that can conceivably be taken, for if two sides are not already taken, the attempt suppress a question will, make it controversial...