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...replacement for scientific communication but as a supplement." A pluralism of approaches to understanding behavior is just as useful as a pluralism of means of transportation; if the danger of the trip can be minimized, nature is more likely to be an enlightening conductor than a priori human reason...
There is no a priori reason to suppose his methods less fruitful than the more established techniques of clinical psychology; if they are to be condemned, it should be only because experiments will show that they fail...
Their fasces to a priori's wheeze recurled...
Thus it is time to take a stand against those radicals who would allow students to type their examinations. Such agitation might eventually force the Administration to take some action after to these many years of investigation. Ignoring the merits of the agitators' demands, it is a priori and obviously true that agitation per se is an evil, which is certainly not good. And so the Administration should not exert itself and should block these self-styled progressives who want to type examinations...
...school of thought, but America herself. "An avowed aloof ness from national feeling," Lionel Trilling says, "is no longer the first ceremonial step into the life of thought . . . For the first time in the history of the modern American intellectual, America is not to be conceived of as a priori the vulgarest and stupidest nation of the world...