Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact is that every basic tenet of orthodox Christianity can be explained as logically as a theorem of Euclid. Few have followed St. Thomas as he piles syllogism on relentless syllogism, building from the bald fact of existence until he reaches the sky and beyond; but for those who have, the comparison of his work with that of most modern philosophers is like comparing the drawings of an architect with the scrawls of bright children...
...that knowledge by an even more mysterious alchemy will then become wisdom . . . Education has pinned its faith to a fictitious 'progress,' blandly believing that man is a romantic creature destined to walk the road of evolution 'more and more unto the perfect day.' Every tenet of this creed has been falsified: progress has become a rather nasty mixture of cash and gadgets, and the road of evolution has reached-Buchenwald...
...workers; in Mexico only 14 of its 2,000 employees are North Americans. "All we want is loyalty, honesty and hard work," says Sears' Venezuelan boss. "We'll teach them the rest." One thing that Sears has already taught its competitors in Latin America is the basic tenet of all U.S. retailers-big volume, not high markups, is the key to profits. And Sears stores have already caused general price reductions in their localities...
Abhoring every tenet and implication of collectivism. Buckley claims that Yale economic courses are saturated with anti-free enterprise thought. Selecting judicious quotes, he demonstrates that all the texts in Economics 10 preach government control in varying degrees. Marx, Hitler, Laski, Huxley, and Dewey are propounded without any intelligent reports by philosophy professors. No teacher at Yale goes unscathed by the author's analysis of the curriculum...
...Warned against mixed marriages with Roman Catholics: ". . . We reaffirm both the sacredness of an individual's religious faith, in which the husband and wife must be equally free and that a fundamental tenet of our faith is violated if either the husband or wife is forced to sign away the religion of unborn children...