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    David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome - [Cached Version]
    Last Visited: 10/25/2009  

    Among them were several notable academics, such as Princeton University dean Christian Gauss and University of Maine president Arthur Mauck.

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    Fresh Air: Sunday - October 6, 2002 - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 12/10/2000    Last Visited: 8/17/2001  

    Regents Professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara , Silliman Seminarist at Yale , Christian Gauss Lecturer at Princeton , Welch Professor of American Studies at Notre Dame University , W.W. Cook Lecturer at the University of Michigan Law School , and Storrs Lecturer at the Yale Law School.

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    Intension - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 10/14/2006    Last Visited: 12/8/2007  

    Christian Gauss, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, In his 1952 introduction to The Prince wrote,

    If Am. students of political theory have become more favorably disposed toward Machiavelli, is not because they have gone fascist but because they are attempting to go scientific.

    Christian Gauss

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    Seduced from Victory: How the Lost Corpse Subverts the... - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 1/12/1990    Last Visited: 10/25/2001  

    To attack Franklin's idea here in North America , and solidify the institution of absolute property rights in slaves , which was not generally accepted until well into the Eighteenth Century , Locke's sickness was spread by the so-called Christian forerunners of President Boy George Bush's Yahoo supporters , like our own racist Attorney General John Ashcroft , who would prefer to feed the Lord's sheep to the lions.
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    In fact , before the development of electronic computers , Kepler , Gauss , and others were notorious for their painstaking arithmetic calculations , and precise physical measurements , to produce the real science which they have bequeathed to us. [ 10 ].

    Four years after his American Scholar address , Emerson promoted his cult of I know what I know , hostility to real cognitive work , in The Over-Soul :.

    We know truth when we see it , let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.Foolish people ask you , when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear , How do you know it is truth , and not an error of your own?.We know truth when we see it , from opinion , as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
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    Christian Gauss , longtime literature professor and Dean of Princeton , who taught Edmund Wilson and F. Scott Fitzgerald , and recruited Tate to teach there.
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    Here-more precious than all the gold in Kentucky-the treasure of English culture is guarded , as Hellenism was preserved in Rome ; and along with it the treasure and essence of all human cultures. . . . For here , and almost nowhere else , is man granted the right and duty of being Christian and human.

    Ask yourself what they mean when they say , know what limits are set , or pruning the tree of freedom..Their heirs claim to revere family , community , education , and Church , but do they intend that any institution shall escape enslavement to their Global Theocracy.

    The primary groups of family , educational association , neighborhood , and church-each of them with its specific attributes and all of them with their combined contributions to the general purpose-must be restored in new forms with new life.This is tantamount to stating that a constitutional reform of democracy cannot be founded but on the spirit of a new religion . . . [ regarding ] the relations between the community as a whole and the separate churches. [ We require ] definite tenets embodying the universal religion of Democracy , which shall underlie each and all of them.For virtually all of them have meddled in the anarchy of the nations and bowed to the powers that be. . . . Therefore the hour has struck when we must know what limits are set by the religion of freedom , which is democracy , to the freedom of worship , and of what God we talk when we repeat , from the Gettysburg Address , that this nation , and with this nation the world , must have a new birth of freedom under God..
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    [ 56 ] Herbert Agar , Frank Aydelotte , G.A. Borgese , Hermann Broch , Van Wyck Brooks , Ada L. Comstock , William Yandell Elliott , Dorothy Canfield Fisher , Christian Gauss , Oscar Jaszi , Alvin Johnson , Hans Kohn , Thomas Mann , Lewis Mumford , William Allan Neilson , Reinhold Niebuhr , Gaetano Salvemini , The City of Man : A Declaration of World Democracy

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    Seduced from Victory: How the Lost Corpse Subverts the... - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 1/12/1990    Last Visited: 12/18/2001  

    To attack Franklin's idea here in North America, and solidify the institution of absolute property rights in slaves, which was not generally accepted until well into the Eighteenth Century, Locke's sickness was spread by the so-called "Christian" forerunners of President Boy George Bush's Yahoo supporters, like our own racist Attorney General John Ashcroft, who would prefer to feed the Lord's sheep to the lions.
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    In fact, before the development of electronic computers, Kepler, Gauss, and others were notorious for their painstaking arithmetic calculations, and precise physical measurements, to produce the real science which they have bequeathed to us.[10]

    Four years after his "American Scholar" address, Emerson promoted his cult of "I know what I know," hostility to real cognitive work, in "The Over-Soul":

    We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, "How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?"We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
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    In fact, from Archimedes, to Cusa, to Leonardo, to Kepler, to Gauss and Riemann, it is mastering this idea of the incommensurability of the "infinites," which is the starting point of science.
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    Christian Gauss, longtime literature professor and Dean of Princeton, who taught Edmund Wilson and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and recruited Tate to teach there.
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    Here-more precious than all the gold in Kentucky-the treasure of English culture is guarded, as Hellenism was preserved in Rome; and along with it the treasure and essence of all human cultures. . . . For here, and almost nowhere else, is man granted the right and duty of being Christian and human.

    Ask yourself what they mean when they say, "know what limits are set," or "pruning the tree of freedom."Their heirs claim to revere family, community, education, and Church, but do they intend that any institution shall escape enslavement to their Global Theocracy?

    The primary groups of family, educational association, neighborhood, and church-each of them with its specific attributes and all of them with their combined contributions to the general purpose-must be restored in new forms with new life.This is tantamount to stating that a constitutional reform of democracy cannot be founded but on the spirit of a new religion . . . [regarding] the relations between the community as a whole and the separate churches. [We require] definite tenets embodying the universal religion of Democracy, which shall underlie each and all of them.For virtually all of them have meddled in the anarchy of the nations and bowed to the powers that be. . . . Therefore the hour has struck when we must know what limits are set by the religion of freedom, which is democracy, to the freedom of worship, and of what God we talk when we repeat, from the Gettysburg Address, that "this nation," and with this nation the world, "must have a new birth of freedom under God."
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    [56] Herbert Agar, Frank Aydelotte, G.A. Borgese, Hermann Broch, Van Wyck Brooks, Ada L. Comstock, William Yandell Elliott, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Christian Gauss, Oscar Jaszi, Alvin Johnson, Hans Kohn, Thomas Mann, Lewis Mumford, William Allan Neilson, Reinhold Niebuhr, Gaetano Salvemini, The City of Man: A Declaration of World Democracy (New York: Viking Press; Toronto: The MacMillan Co., 1941).

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    Self Abuse Support Forums > The purpose of the state,... - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 3/20/2005    Last Visited: 7/23/2006  

    As examined by Christian Gauss, once a Dean Emeritus of Princeton University, the purpose of the State is to preserve itself.

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    TAP: Vol 7, Iss. 29. The Other Edmund Wilson. Scott... - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 6/8/2002    Last Visited: 6/8/2002  

    Wilson dedicated Axel's Castle to his Princeton professor Christian Gauss, who gave him a conception "of what literary criticism ought to be-a history of man's ideas and imaginings in the setting of the conditions which have shaped them."
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    Wilson believed, with Gauss, that criticism should concern itself with the social conditions that had produced a book or poem.

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    Virtual Meeting Places Wiki - [Cached Version]
    Last Visited: 6/30/2009  

    The most reliable guide to this renewed interest is the Introduction to the 1953 (Mentor Books) edition of Il Principe, wherein, Christian Gauss, the Dean of Princeton University, discusses, with pertinent historical context, the commentaries on The Prince made by the German historians Ranke (19th c.) and Meineke (20th c.), the Briton Lord Acton, and others. Citing the consensus that Machiavelli was the first political theorist with a practical, scientific approach to statecraft, considering him "the first Modern Man". The commentators view the political scientist Machiavelli positively - because he viewed the world realistically, thus, such statecraft leads to (generally) constructive results.

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