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... authority sig- nifies distrust in the power of experience to provide , in its own ongoing movement , the needed principles of belief and action . Faith in its newer sense signifies that experience itself is the sole ultimate authority ...
... authority sig- nifies distrust in the power of experience to provide , in its own ongoing movement , the needed principles of belief and action . Faith in its newer sense signifies that experience itself is the sole ultimate authority ...
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... authority , and that such an appeal is no longer of any use ; that we have to find out things for ourselves . To that I would answer , first , that we cannot , if we would , find out everything for ourselves in our complex moral life ...
... authority , and that such an appeal is no longer of any use ; that we have to find out things for ourselves . To that I would answer , first , that we cannot , if we would , find out everything for ourselves in our complex moral life ...
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... authority among men to be continuously infallible and active to - day and for the future . At the best they say there has been one in the past and may be one in the future . But the attitude of those who say that there is one , fully ...
... authority among men to be continuously infallible and active to - day and for the future . At the best they say there has been one in the past and may be one in the future . But the attitude of those who say that there is one , fully ...
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achieved æsthetic animal atoms beauty become believe better biological body brain called century Christian church civilization conception conduct Confucius coöperation creatures creed death democracy doctrine earth economic emotion ethical evil existence experience fact faith fear feel future H. L. MENCKEN happiness HILAIRE BELLOC hope human nature ideals ideas immortal individual instinct intellectual intelligence IRVING BABBITT IRWIN EDMAN J. B. S. HALDANE JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS John Dewey JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH JULIA PETERKIN knowledge least less living man's mankind matter means ment merely mind modern nation never one's organization ourselves past philosophy physical political possible practical present question race reason religion religious ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN Rousseau Rousseauist scientific seems sense social society soul spirit things thought tion to-day true truth universe values whole WILLIAM RALPH INGE words