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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 30
IN this season we are encouraged to express our reverences. Not as specifically as on the Fourth of July, or on the birthdays of national leaders passed on. It is something of the human disposition, if not exactly to doubt, at least to be patient of doubt. Skepticism, it is sometimes called, and we are urged to reflect that skepticism brings on curiosity; curiosity, an alteration of accepted ways and of accepted solutions.
Continued impatience with physical actualities harnesses man's efforts to overcome them. We accepted the immutability of the laws of gravity even when we discovered means of defying them in flight. But we do not ...