[Ads-l] "Rearranging Their Prejudices" Quote

[Peter Reitan]

The Appeal (St. Paul, Minnesota), April 22, 1922, page 2 (Chronicling America).

William Jennings Bryan's recent attack on the theory of evolution causes the Reverend George Craig Stewart to cry out: "Mr. Bryan is a conspicuous example of the man who thinks he is thinking, but who is only rearranging his prejudices.  Few men really think.




> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:58:18 +0000
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> In the Yale Book of Quotations, 1st edition, I list the following quotation=
>  under Knute Rockne:
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> Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their p=
> rejudices.
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> Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1927
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> While working on the 2nd edition of the YBQ, I have realized that this quot=
> e was undoubtedly around before Rockne.  I would welcome any citations or l=
> eads pushing it back in time.  Probably "rearranging their prejudices", "re=
> arrange their prejudices", "rearranging his prejudices," etc. are the key p=
> hrases to search for.
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> Fred Shapiro
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