HAVE often been told that the Chinese in their present epic struggle are fighting the battle of the democracies. Though most Americans concur in this statement they are not likely to agree on the sense in which it is to be understood or what qualifications, if any, are necessary. What has this ancient, loosely-organized state in common with us? What values in their culture are they fighting to preserve, which at the same time are relevant to us? Are there substantial
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to be enacted anew in every generation, in every year and day, in the living relations of person to person in all social forms and institutions. Forgetting this, we have allowed our economic and hence our political institutions to drift away from democracy; we have been negligent even in creating a school that should be the constant nurse of democracy. I conclude by saying that there is at least one thing in which the idea of democracy is not dim, however far short we have come from striving to make it reality. Our public school system was founded in the name of equality of opportunity for all, independent of birth, economic status, race, creed, or color. The school can not by itself alone create or embody this idea. But the least it can do is to create individuals who understand the concrete meaning of the idea with their minds, who cherish it warmly in their hearts, and who are equipped to battle in its behalf in their actions. Democracy also means voluntary choice, based on an intelligence that is the outcome of free association and communication with others. It means a way of living together in which mutual and free consultation rule instead of force, and in which cooperation instead of brutal competition is the law of life; a social order in which all the forces that make for friendship, beauty, and knowledge are cherished in order that each individual may become what he, and he alone, is capable of becoming. These things at least give a point of departure for the filling in of the democratic idea and aim as a frame of reference. If a sufficient number of educators devote themselves to striving courageously and with full sincerity to find the answers to the concrete questions which the idea and the aim put to us, I believe that the question of the relation of the schools to direction of social change will cease to be a question, and will become a moving answer in action.
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paradox each time they feel symptoms of the Moral Urge. If universities are indeed anxious to serve the ultimate good of society, and not merely expedients of the moment, they must forget all about "right" and "wrong" and devote themselves solely to the search for truth not the mystical, upper-case Truth of the pulpit but simply the most inclusive picture of the real world available at that time.
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Pub Date : 1936-01-01DOI: 10.4135/9781446215692.n14
Murray Seasongood
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t I ^HE title of these remarks you will have recognized as I borrowed from the address delivered by Ralph Waldo JL Emerson before the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa nearly a hundred years ago. This address remains the high water mark reached by the great annual tide of such orations ; and had it not been for the unreasonable prejudice against delivering orally anything that has already been printed I should have urged the authorities to permit the reading of Emerson's oration as the best possible way of initiating the series which begins tonight.
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A NOTHER list of academic proscriptions is posted in Germany. /' The list for one recent day included the urbane and cosmojL JL politan Moritz Bonn, well known in America as one of the most interesting of exchange professors} Emil Lederer, a liberal scholar of serene purity of purpose and clarity of thought} Kantorowitz, one of the most distinguished of living historians} Keilsen, an authority on jurisprudence who would adorn any age. Eight more, every one a scholar of note, were included in that list. They are liberals, or they have socialistic leanings, or they are internationalists, or most damaging of all they are Jews. And hundreds of other professors, against whom one or another of these heinous charges may be brought, are looking forward to expulsion from the chairs they have honored and to a precarious and poverty-stricken future. At least, it may be said, they can continue to write books. Freedom of oral instruction is gone; but the most effective means of instruction is after all the book, with the author's philosophy weightily set forth, his facts marshalled in unassailable array. Alas, freedom to write is dependent on freedom to publish, and this freedom too has perished out of Germany. The German scholar may go into exile and write what he pleases, but there has never been sufficient market for his books abroad to justify their publication. So far as the present outlook goes, the free German scholar is done for. Let us entertain no illusions about the superiority of mind to circumstance. Wer tot ist y der ist tot. Such proscription of scholars, unfortunately, is no new and strange phenomenon in our time. The best of the Italian scholars are wandering around the world today, eking out a living as best they can. Russia, too, had distinguished scholars under the old regime whose opinions failed to square with the official doctrine. They are in exile, living in attics on book reviewing or private tutoring, or engaged in some manual occupation which affords scanty bread. There were
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Speaking of coincidences, I also think God has a wonderful sense of humor. Back when I was at Fieldstone I was preaching weekly at a retirement home. It was a short service and the mother of one of my elders also lived there. One day we were finishing singing ”Because He Lives” which the 6 people gathered together (in various stages of dementia) knew by heart. We finished but then miraculously music began to play the refrain out of nowhereso we sang the refrain again together without missing a beat. I was astonished. I said to the director the boom box began playing the tune right at the perfect moment! She said that is more than miraculous because it is not plugged in! I left shaking... and called my elder to tell her about this crazy miracle.
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groups, although crossover from placebo to lenalidomide confounded the ability to assess the effect of the drug on this or on leukemia transformation. Erythroid and cytogenetic responses appeared lower than those seen in the MDS-003 trial despite similar baseline characteristics, as might be expected when moving from the phase 2 to the phase 3 setting, but are still substantial8 (see table). So, is this fourth study of lenalidomide in MDS truly “the charm?” To answer, we turn to the etymology of the phrase, “Third time’s the charm.” A popular interpretation from the 19th century refers to an English law freeing a condemned man after 3 failed attempts at hanging him. Yet, the approximate phrase appears earlier, in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, as stated by the character Falstaff: “Pr’ythee, no more prattling— go. I will hold: this is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death” (Act V, scene 1, lines 1-5). Perhaps for lenalidomide, and more importantly for MDS patients, there is good luck in even numbers, with excellent response rates and hopefully, less chance of death by disease or leukemia, although this remains to be seen. Conflict-of-interest disclosure: The author has served on an advisory board for Celgene. ■
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It can hardly be a coincidence that the historical study of utopias has accelerated as faith in the promises of utopianism has declined. The very idea that utopias, those rose-tinted cities stranded outside time, might have a history is itself a recent discovery, and has largely sprung from assessments of More’s Utopia, the work that revived the ancient genre of the ideal commonwealth for the modern world. More’s work has been heralded as both a harbinger of Communism and as the intellectual first-fruits of the modern bureaucratic state. The corruption and collapse of the one, and the distrust and fear of the other, have made More’s solutions for human depravity seem distant and even actively repugnant in ways that earlier generations of readers could hardly have foreseen. History has reclaimed Utopia and made its vision of a well-regulated present a thing of the past.
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