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The Everlasting Man • 1925
What the denouncer of dogma really means is not that dogma is bad; but rather that dogma is too good to be true.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The passage challenges the stated reason for rejecting dogma by suggesting that the critic finds it implausibly good. It makes an argument about disbelief rather than establishing anyone’s actual motives.
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