...dress. They think that they prove something when they quote somebody who has once said it. If any one wants to keep out " new ideas," he does well to cling...votaries an unquenchable thirst and affection for what is (rue in fact, word, character, and motive. They have taught us to appreciate and weigh evidence and...

...tended to limit the horizon. The sciences on the other hand, as a distinguished writer has expressed it, "have produced in their votaries an unquenchable thirst...and weigh evidence and to deal honestly with it." There was a feeling in some quarters, though not very wide-spread, that the American college was clinging...

...literature, philosophy, and so on Sumner said that they were at best superfluous and at worst they were "the greatest barrier to new ideas and the chief bulwark of modern obscurantism."18 Sumner rejected with great hostility abstract formulations of ethical principles and...