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“When in doubt,” said Dr. Robert, “always act on the assumption that people are more honorable than you have any solid reason for supposing they are.
His ideal was pure experimental science at one end of the spectrum and pure experimental mysticism at the other.
Perfect faith is defined as something that produces perfect peace of mind.
But thesis always invites antithesis and in due course the heresies begat Neo-Orthodoxy.
Gongylus gongyloides, Homo sapiens, my great-grandfather’s introduction to Pala and hypnosis—what could be more unlikely?”
People, he was beginning to understand, are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of their culture.
To make the best of all the worlds—the worlds already realized within the various cultures and, beyond them, the worlds of still unrealized potentialities.
