Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Utterly Other. Philosopher Stace is happy that most modern Christians (except Roman Catholics) tend to play down the rational proofs of God. "Attempts at proof not only fail of their own purpose and so do no good to religion, but . . . they positively degrade it. For their effect is to drag...
Secretly this skillful curer of souls began to doubt the rational proofs of Catholicism as not so all-inclusive as he had hoped. He began to investigate "scientific" philosophies. One seemed especially satisfying, since it held forth the "scientific possibility of dominating national and social events." In the Italian elections...
This point deserves far greater emphasis, however, for if the public school were satisfactory, there would be no rational need for the private school. The theory of better private schools has always been to provide more advanced education to the gifted student. Public schools are seldom able to offer comparable...
Such is the necessity of hush-hush in the whole atomic energy field, Conant asserted, that, "It is impossible today or in the foreseeable future to have a frank, rational, searching discussion of the industrial uses of atomic energy. The general public might just as well stop reading anything in...
London's Imperial War Museum today houses many of the products of this period of the artist's life-spiky, devastated landscapes spotted with cubic gun pits, decorated with friezelike rows of artillery shells, and peopled by angular, steel-helmeted robots. The postwar years showed that Wyndham Lewis...