Opposites: A Series of Essays on the Unpopular Sides of Popular Questions (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Lewis Thornton

9780260098108: Opposites: A Series of Essays on the Unpopular Sides of Popular Questions (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0260098108 ISBN 13: 9780260098108

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Excerpt from Opposites: A Series of Essays on the Unpopular Sides of Popular Questions

Now this is a most annoying sort of intellect to possess; yet, for some mysterious reason, it is the kind with which I have been provided. Most sen sible people are content to accept one or another of the numerous current Life-theories which are offered in explanation of the social problems, and to make it their faith and rule of life; but the contradictory or upside-down mind, directly it is presented with any of these excellent creeds, rushes off at a tangent to look at its opposite side and pick holes in it. It is the kind of sceptical mind which religious people call impious, and rationalistic people pronounce praiseworthy; until it begins to pick holes in rationalism too, whereupon the rationalists also turn round and stigmatise it as profane.

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