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Nagariya Posted 13 years ago
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What does the underlined part mean?
Learned Hand once wrote something that seems like an apt description of the wider context: "A community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbour as a possible enemy, where non-conformity is a mark of disaffection, where denunciation, without specification or backing takes place of evidence, where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent, and where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in open lists."
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Learned Hand once wrote something that seems like an apt description of the wider context: "A community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbour as a possible enemy, where non-conformity is a mark of disaffection, where denunciation, without specification or backing takes place of evidence, where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent, and where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in open lists."
Thank you.
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nagariya where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in open lists. Roughly, where few people any longer believe that the best way to solve problems is by using logic, and that therefore people are afraid to say publicly what they think. CJ
- nagariya where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in open lists.
- Roughly, where few people any longer believe that the best way to solve problems is by using logic, and that therefore people are afraid to say publicly what they think.
- CJ
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nagariyawhere faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in open lists.Roughly,
where few people any longer believe that the best way to solve problems is by using logic, and that therefore people are afraid to say publicly what they think.
CJ
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