p. 76 Difficult as it was for a mind trained in the humanities, to grapple with scientific formula, he welcomed the challenge. It was thrilling to him to be working with men who recognized that they must justify with facts every statement they made.
p. 139 The flight from rationalism, the flight from thinking, had for a generation been bad enough in all conscience, but never had there been such organized efforts by social, political, and even religious bodies to discredit individual thinking and persuade men to yield their minds to the authority of groups seeking strength not in ideas but in an enforced unanimity. Everything a man saw or read, everyone he encountered, the associations which claimed his loyalty, all drove in on him the same propaganda of self-distrust and dependence. Men seemed no longer to have any spiritual self-confidence. Efficient, no doubt, they were, in material things, yes, but mentally and spiritually stunted. How incredible that a generation, which had achieved so much in discovery and invention, could sink so low as to relinquish its right to think for itself. What spiritual bankruptcy!
p. 156 It is the fate of every truth that it shall be a subject for laughter before it is generally recognized.
p. 168 "Pshaw, you get used to anything," responded the Doctor. "You simply have to. It all depends on your living for something. Most people nowadays live against something."
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