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These are hard questions. Thus far most Americans have taken refuge in a grim and too easy sophism: "The Russians and Poles and Czechs will handle the Germans; the Chinese will take care of the Japs before we can do anything anyway." But can the U.S., fighting a united war for a united peace, retreat into moral isolation? The Nazis think not. Last week they were blaming the Kharkov hangings on Roosevelt and Churchill, and threatening to take retaliation on U.S. and British prisoners...
Writes Hagiographer Ghéon: "The Devil had managed to slide into his conscience the monstrous sophism that a priest of the Church can obey God while disobeying the Church; it was the one vulnerable spot-and the devil put his finger on it." M. Vianney cheated his old enemy, however, and remained...
Fellow 8., hardworking, quiet sort without any particular vices--uninteresting; Fellow 9., extremely pleasant and likeable fellow; Fellow 10., jovial, genial, all around person . . . most hospitable; Fellow 11., quick mind revelling in sophism . . . ardent punster...
These final remarks of President Butler's are too deftly conciliatory to escape the charge of sophism. In this, they illustrate a fundamental obstacle to academic freedom in this country. The entire educative mechanism is bound up in a complex of interdependencies which hamper free action. President Butler adroitly approves the theory and forbids the act, just as do so many other leaders of education; they are all accountable to some lone who would be injured by an undue enthusiasm over truth. It is certain that freedom in teaching is desirable. But it is a futile hope until the departmental...
...anxiety to crush out agnosticism, Mr. Abbot seems to be perfectly ready to sacrifice the whole field of pure metaphysics. The essay would have been much more valuable if the writer had stopped to support such statements as that the "Kantian principle on which agnosticism rsts is itself a sophism." We are asked to take rather too much on faith...