Ep. 108: Lindy Law and the Slippery Slope
Young Heretics
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The Smallest Error in the Beginning Creates a Great Error in the End
The church could not afford to swerve a hair's breadth on some things if she was to continue her great and daring experiment of the irregular equilibrium. Once let one idea become less powerful and some other idea would become too powerful. Doctrines had to be defined within strict limits, even in order that man might enjoy general human liberties. A sentence phrased wrong about the nature of symbolism would have broken all the best statues in europe. It is enough to notice that if some small mistake were made in doctrine, huge blunders might be made in human happiness. And so what i am arguing is, how do we back to the source of what made wrights great while proceeding on the
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