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                                             December 10, 2007


       Bertrand Russell:

       "For my part, I believe that too great
       emphasis upon the practical robs practice              Pragmatism may 
       itself of its _raison d'être_.                         have pragmatic         
       We act, in so far as we are not blindly                problems but      
       driven by instinct, in order to achieve                that would seem
       ends which are not merely further                      to confirm the
       actions, but have in them some element,                viewpoint's
       however precarious and however transient,              value to us.
       of rest and peace-- not the rest and
       peace of mere quiescence, but the kind
       that, in the most intense form, becomes
       ecstasy."
                                                    PSYCHSOPHY


          -- "Dewey's New Logic", p. 205
             of the "Basic Writings",
             originally from "The Philosophy
             of John Dewey" (1939)


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