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Meddling Through
Britten, Clarence | August 21, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on several books. Some of them are as follows: "The Mighty Medicine," by Franklin Henry Giddings, "Beyond Agnosticism," by Bernard Iddings Bell and "Social Interpretation of Education," by Joseph Kinmont Hart. For professor Giddings, speculative thought, which is a single-entry accounting of reality, is the way of belief; the way of knowledge is the double-entry accountancy of science, in which ideas are checked against sense data through the trial balance of repeated experiment. The one way is traditional and authoritarian, deriving from magic and fiatism as transmitted by an occult succession of medicine men for whom teaching is still largely a matter of incantation and of imparting an immaterial culture.

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BOOKS; MIGHTY Medicine, The (Book); BEYOND Agnosticism (Book); SOCIAL Interpretation of Education, A (Book); GIDDINGS, Franklin Henry, 1855-1931; BELL, Bernard Iddings; HART, Joseph Kinmont
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