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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our concepti...

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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population tha...

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Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by that time his mind was in much the same state that y...

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I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental ...

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But I have believed always and taught always that what God demands from man is his utmost effort to cooperate and understand. I have taught the imagin...

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But the old traditions of sectarian misdirection still in spite of a certain advance in technical efficiency, cripple and distort the general mind. "A...