Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Human nature does not change much, but societies to better it continue to spring up all the time. The American Board of Applied Christianity sponsors the latest effort--a school of rational living, teaching thought and thrift.
It would make the shade of Rabelais long for reincarnation to see so current his motto: "Fay ce que voudras." But thinking people are constrained to oppose the new libertinism. Man may, indeed, be an animal, often a superb animal. But isn't he something more? Is it rational to...
Why should we, living in a republic that pretends to be a government of the people, by the people, for the people, be imposed upon by the oft repeated assertion that a Supreme Judge is beyond criticism and beyond correction? How can the election or appointment of a questionable attorney...
It has long been one of the foibles of Anglo-Saxon races to Characterize the Latins as foolish, sentimental people, and to consider themselves as particularly rational and practical; and this delusion is still widely popular. Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth. It is the Latin who...
Education should tear away the enshrouding myths of collective passions and stimulate in their place a just and rational skepticism: that was the theme of Bertrand Russell's lecture before the largest and most enthusiastic audience which has filled the Living Room of the Union in the past year.