Date of Award

5-1930

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Philosophy

First Advisor

William J. Grace

Abstract

It is indeed unfortunate that our mental make-up is so prone to accept as fact whatever appeals to it as novel and plausible. We are, it is true, rational beings but it is just as true that we accept without due consideration and study, any theory which has but a scintilla of truth and a majority of appeal, if that theory is new to us and has embodied in it, something interesting and fanciful. In our quest for modernity, we often overlook or fail to appreciate the fundamental truths of antiquity. And very often, what we think is new, is merely old doctrine in new garb, old doctrine which has been exploded as false, and unworthy of credence.

Comments

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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