Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received at the Théâtre des Champs-Éilysées? Was there any truth in the report that the audience threw things...
...trees. It declared that "Don Blasco is too intelligent not to be a republican. The King business has been a bad business for Spain." The "King business" is a favorite expression of The World. Because the Prince of Wales is "entirely composed of prestige"-a statement far from the truth-the "King business" ought to be wound up. Because Ibanez is seen as "the greatest of all Spaniards"-an absurd contention-the "King business" in Spain ought to be wound up. A critic said: "Such childish logic disguises Liberalism with bigoted reaction. Republicanism may fit new countries ; but, for those...
...best thought of preceding ages, he faces away from them toward the future, proclaiming the present the happiest age the world has ever known. He comes with no specific answers to the ultimate problems of life. But he comes with the specific recognition that they are unanswerable. He sets truth in a new light by drawing a sharp line between what one knows, and what one is impelled by inclination merely to believe. Adjusting the conflict between science and religion, he makes plain that the central idea of the religion of the future will be the development of cooperative goodwill...
...order. His answers to the questions life puts to man are clear and authoritative, drawn from a historic past. That past is the eternal teacher, never to be outgrown, never to be doubted. He says in comparing the new attitude with his own: "They have some truth. They have not all the truth, unfortunately. . . . And therefore, the presence in this locality of this temple of God, which represents the whole truth, the real truth, the fundamental truth. . . . gives the lesson every day that life can really dispense with every other sort of half truth...
...order changeth, yielding place to new." But with its motto "Veritas", Harvard does not hesitate to enter fully and without fear into an inquiry fraught with so large a significance to Truth...