For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying princi...ple of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investm...ent in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every su...ccessive year would see fewer of the unfit born, and finally none. But, it may be urged, this is legalized infanticide. Assuredly it is; and it is urgently needed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To a first approximation, the intentional strategy consists of treating the object whose behavior you want to predict as a rationa...l agent with beliefs and desires and other mental states exhibiting what Brentano and others call intentionality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and whol...esome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to prod...uce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The true critic is a scrupulous avoider of formulae; he refrains from statements which pretend to be literally true; he finds fact... nowhere and approximation always.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He represents the privilege of the intellect, the power, namely, of carrying up every fact to successive platforms, and so disclos...ing, in every fact, a germ of explanation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,... preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »