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  • Others blame the triumph of a selfcritical liberal theology within the mainline churches.

    Dead End For The Mainline? 2008

  • The stages in the development of mankind as a whole replicate, as macrocosm to microcosm, the stages in the development of a person, from an imaginative and inventive childhood driven forward by free fantasies and strong emotions, which is succeeded by a tired, selfcritical, and prosaic middle age, and leading on to the disorders of senility.

    Vico for Now Hampshire, Stuart 1994

  • In terms of basic attitude to Canada, there are two breeds of Canadians: those who are defensive and selfcritical and those who are proud and expansive.

    Rehabilitation: Educational and International 1970

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