Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...peculiar but not unpraiseworthy characteristics of the natives of India--their passive bravery, their love of self-directed duty and their aversion to authority and organization, their respect for nature, their deep religions sensibility. To these people the doctrines of Gotoma and his greater successor, Buddha, seemed not unsound. The two leaders believed in the subtle extension of personality, the doctrine that perfect individuals must sooner or later blend into one great whole. Each man must strive for that after-life into which he can pour his whole being. In this way he will obtain the cosmic consciousness which will...
...ideals are contrasted with and opposed by rigid facts. This contrast has been emphasized by modern students and this emphasis has lead to investigation, which has proved the old forms of natural theology unsound. No impression has been made upon the assumption of the supremacy of ideals; for history has proved the power of ideals to hold their own with facts...