But dogmatism--or the inclination 'to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking'--is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing "Ame, " Dictionnaire philosophique, ed. J. Benda, I, 19]

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