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The Interpreter's House - The Chancellor's Installation Address Delivered Before the University of Edinburgh, July 20th 1938

Book by John Buchan · 3 quotes · Philosophy, A Posteriori, A Priori

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The Interpreter's House - The Chancellor's Installation Address Delivered Before the University of Edinburgh, July 20th 1938 Quotes

“In the last two centuries mankind has advanced far on the road to toleration, one of the first of the civic virtues; but now an intolerant spirit is abroad which claims for this or that dogma the status of final truth, and would compel its acceptance by fire and sword.”

“To select arbitrarily a set of first principles, and to make all our studies subordinate to them, is in effect to establish an intellectual dictatorship amd to kill the freedom of mind. It is true that it would give us orderliness, but it would be the orderliness of death.”

“There is a famous Cambridge toast that I have always liked: “God bless the higher mathematics, and may they never be of the slightest use to anybody”.”