Quote#Politics & Power
To undermine the pedantry which had paralyzed German scholarship, to…
Quote byAndrew Dickson White · 1832–1918
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915), p. 114.
English (original)
to undermine the pedantry which had paralyzed German scholarship, to substitute thought for formulas, to bring right reason to bear upon international and municipal law, to discredit religious intolerance, to root out witchcraft persecution and procedure by torture from all modern codes, and to begin that emancipation, of public and especially university instruction from theological control
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