American Inquisitors: A Commentary on Dayton and Chicago

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Macmillan, 1928 - Počet stran: 120
Thomas Jefferson is a character in a recurring "Dialogue on Olympus" as the author ponders the irony of the man who professes to be Jefferson's most loyal disciple acting as a prosecutor in the Scopes trial. Socrates, however, has the last word. --Frank Shuffelton.

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Strana 20 - ... to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical...
Strana 15 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Strana 39 - Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation.
Strana 16 - Let us reflect that it is inhabited by a thousand millions of people. That these profess probably a thousand different systems of religion. That ours is but one of that thousand. That if there be but one right, and ours that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninetynine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.
Strana 12 - That it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the universities, normals, and all other public schools of the state, which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the state, to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man, as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.
Strana 46 - ... that he has learned to live without the support of any creed, that he can be happy, or at least serene, that he can be good, or at least humane, no matter what conclusion...
Strana 71 - That genuine and intelligent patriotism, no less than the requirements of honesty and sound scholarship, demand that textbook writers and teachers should strive to present a truthful picture of past and present, with due regard to the different purposes and possibilities of elementary, secondary, and advanced Instruction ; that criticism of history textbooks should therefore be based not upon grounds of patriotism but only upon grounds of faithfulness to fact as determined by specialists or tested...
Strana 22 - Socrates : Well, how would you gentlemen compose your fundamental principles, if a majority, exercising its fundamental right to rule, ordained that only Buddhism should be taught in the public schools? Bryan: I'd move to a Christian country. Jefferson: I'd exercise the sacred right of revolution. What would you do, Socrates? Socrates : I'd re-examine my fundamental principles.
Strana 16 - ... wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. But against such a majority we cannot effect this by force. Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves.
Strana 5 - I confess, for my part, that it greatly delights me. I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. Does it exalt dunderheads, cowards, trimmers, frauds, cads? Then the pain of seeing them go up is balanced and obliterated by the joy of seeing them come down. Is it inordinately wasteful, extravagant, dishonest? Then so is every other form of government: all alike are enemies to decent men.

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