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Usage examples of facts.

The facts of individual experience here on earth became more interesting than the shadowy afterlife.

It was by now taken as read that collecting figures on morbidity, say, or the incidence of crime or insanity, or the facts of nutrition, would comprise the empirical basis both for social policy on the part of government, and for social science in the universities.

Church especially attaches itself, the miraculous and supernatural matter in the facts and destinies of Jesus, it is far more certain that it did not take place.

There are the known facts of a great life, but facts are dead and almost mute when we seek the essential reality of a creative personality.

But let us review some of the facts we know of a life which is at once significant, fascinating and tragic.

Every fact is an incident, unforeseeable and incalculable, but the inner progression of a life is destined, and works itself out through the facts, is helped or hindered by them, overcomes them, or succumbs to them.

The subterranean facts are never written down, but every fact changes the course of the history of facts.

This fails to attain objectivity because the facts that survive may be either too few or too numerous, and in either case artistry must be employed in filling gaps or selecting.

Political thinking has the first task of ascertaining the facts and the possibilities, and then of changing them through action.

Ours is the first age in Western history in which an absolute submission to facts has triumphed over all other spiritual attitudes.

We follow the facts no matter where they lead, even though we must give up dearly cherished schemes, ideologies, soul-fancies, prejudices.

It must not be supposed that the sense for facts, the historical sense, dispenses with creative thinking.

Physical facts, like resistance, sourness, redness, are accessible to everyone.

To this century the new vista now opens of assembling the lost facts in previous ages and previous Cultures.

By 2000 the view of the present Culture-bearing stratum will have become also the view of the many, and by that time, more facts will be known to the independent thinkers about the same War than are now known to the few.