Singular dogmatism that in laying down the law should condescend to give reasons for it!
On the other hand, when I turn to the letter of my friendly censor, I find assertion without argument, which, to my simple apprehension, is of much nearer kin to dogmatism than is the sin with which I am charged.
Dogmatism was banished in all its positions and doctrines; the endless laws about purity and food, the torturing penances and expiations, the entire ceremonial was without value and superfluous.
Everything may be tolerated, if only the spirit of dogmatism is away.
The spirit and love of dogmatism is characteristic of the imperfectly educated.
Subjectivism is not idealism,--the stoliddogmatism of neo-realism to the contrary notwithstanding.
He does not realize how doctrine has usurped the place of duty, and dogmatism has hardened the soul of man.
Demonstration is the sign manual of knowledge; Dogmatism the arrogance of ignorance.
It required all the learning of dogmatism to overthrow the dogmatism of learning; and the Sceptics may be said to resemble in this respect that ancient incendiary who stole from the altar the fire with which he destroyed the temple.
You must see, Lucullus, by this time, that your defence of dogmatism is overthrown (105).
This is equally true of the Pyrrhonian scepticism and of the dogmatism of Zeno and Epicurus.
On the ruin of all philosophies and religions Montaigne, like Nietzsche, has built up a dogmatism of his own.
The foundation of that dogmatism in both is an unbounded faith in life and in nature.
Its dogmatism and bigotry were opposed to the better temper of the age, and it never took any popular hold on England.
But he was the centre of that Latitudinarian party which was slowly growing up in the reaction from the dogmatism of the time, and his most passionate longing was for liberty of religious thought.
Against the ecclesiastical dogmatism of Presbyterian or Catholic he set the authority of reason.
With Comte, atheistic dogmatism crushing every eternal hope; with Bunsen, Christian faith pointing the child to an eternal home in the Father.
Yet I ought to say, that, in cases where personal investigation is possible, I would take neither popular clamor nor learned dogmatism as conclusive evidence against any writer's honesty and usefulness.
But to sit there, under the guardianship of Clifton, and spell out the dim dogmatism of some nebulous fanatic,--of course it was not to be thought of for a moment.
The reason is, that dogmatism rules in the sphere of natural science, and no communication would receive fair treatment which contravened the opinions of editors or the mass of prevalent opinion in colleges and scientific societies.
The dogmatism of the medical college, and of most scientific associations, rivals that of theological sectarianism.
The domination of habit and transmitteddogmatism is growing continually weaker, fading away in churches and colleges.
There is a fierceness and dogmatism of conversation in Holcroft for which you receive little compensation either from the veracity of his information, the closeness of his reasoning, or the splendour of his language.
You deem that I have treated "systems and opinions with the furious prejudices of the conventicle, and the illiberal dogmatism of the cynic;" that I have "layed about me on this side and on that with the sledge hammer of abuse.
The first great shock to the pretentious dogmatism of the Western world came with the discovery of Copernicus and Galileo that the current astronomy was fundamentally wrong.
And certainly there must be a spice of dogmatism in it when we begin laying down laws about the future; for how do we know that there are not phases of nature coming upon us of which we have formed no conception?
It forms a striking contrast with the dogmatism of many among his commentators.
As a platform orator, he is very effective: he is everywhere the same--everywhere you see the same hearty dogmatism and genial sincerity.
Dogmatism has its roots deep-bedded in the human heart.
But we must not imagine that all the dogmatism is on one side, and that the theological.
The appropriate rebuke for the old dogmatism has been already put in the mouth of Job in the form of a bitter sneer: "No doubt ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
The new dogmatismtaunts the old for credulity and superstition; the old reproaches the new for levity and skepticism.
According to him, then, Christianity is not a religion of doctrines or mysteries; and if you are looking for dogmatism in Scripture, it's a mistake.
Thus the principle of dogmatism gradually became an essential element in Charles's religious views.
Darwin, the very type of a man devoted to science alone and not to personal interests,--Darwin was anything but dogmatic, and yet Darwinism is dogmatism in one of its purest forms.
