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• Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that…
• By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us…
• All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second…
• A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes…
• Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
• Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the…
• If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
• Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
• If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
• It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and…
• Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober…
• Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.

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