Word: scientismic
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...things like that. I challenged her to name one decent idea in the first two acts, and she hemmed and hawed and hemmed again. With good reason: Viereck has simply messed around with a handful of the last decade's intellectual cliches. He is against materialism, religiosity, and scientism. He is (and I concede the moderate originality of his symbol) for dryads, unifying "earthiness and airiness, mortality and sky, in concrete touchable simplicity." He is for "a natural magic, the marriage of earth and sky." He is, no doubt, also for motherhood, fatherhood, and nut-brown...
...fundamentalists as vicious and narrow-minded hypocrites, just as wildly and unwisely idealizes their opponents, as personified in Darrow. Actually, the fundamentalist position, even when carried to the extreme that Bryan struck when he denied that man is a mammal, is scarcely more absurd and profitless than the shallow scientism that the picture offers as a substitute for religious faith and experience...
...House of Intellect, by Jacques Barzun. A thin, well-read line of intellectual heroes, says Columbia University's Barzun. must hold the past against artiness, scientism and coddled incompetents...
...House of Intellect, by Jacques Barzun. A thin, well-read line of intellectual heroes, says Columbia University's Barzun, must hold the past against artiness, scientism and coddled incompetents...
...Said Zurich's Dr. Adolf Guggen-biihl: "Man is basically nonrational; he has too many basic, instinctual drives ever to become wholly rational or logical, and medicine must help him to accept this fact." To Jung & Co., the latter-day worship of rationality has its roots in the scientism that gave birth to both the world of technology and the cultural need to venerate rationalism...