83: "Patient as an observer, he is utterly imbecilic as a scientific reasoner" [O. Browning on Darwin]
136; her research eventuated [sic] in seven books
148: Having become a Catholic, Ellen Gates Starr [partner of Jane Addams], she soon became convinced that the Church was the most dedicated social justice organization in the country, though few impartial observers would agree with her. [JDRockefeller agreed]
156: "Hobbes persuasive fictions, are not history" [Eva Ross]
157: [on the women converts] "still, taken together they are worthy of investigation" [Where did Allitt pick up his English gentility]
182: the German invasion of Belgium was "dastardly"
207: Dorothy Day's & Mary West's rural communities in the late 1940s "were in a practical sense, dismal failures"
234: The urbane conciliatory tone of the convert intellectuals laid the foundations for the ecumenical 1960s and the more adventurous Catholic generation that was to replace this one. [or were the reason why the council was necessary?]
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