Excerpts from the book "The failure of the witches" (Editorial Jorge Alvarez, Buenos Aires, 1966).
"The claim by innuendo. Is perhaps the most practiced. The form doubting everything possible to conceive, forward all through a swing of suggestions that apparently does not assert anything, but repeated, reinforcing ... And imposing! I choose at random: "In this physicist has reason to believe ... This view is defended by X, Y, ... Nothing proves otherwise ... It is therefore legitimate to assume ... The USSR researchers claim, in effect ... It is thus conceivable that ... " Is indicative of the conditional pass, the way that both supports the statement that says no, but with half-words to understand the initiate. This slip subtle as possible in suspense as possible realizable, which is rapidly converted into certainty, leads to the strong acceptance of what remains essentially a hypothesis. "
" Think what they think the authors of the 'Morning of the Magicians' there is only one kind of truth: scientific truth, because only she is prepared to requirement of objectivity and control. What constitutes the legitimacy and strength of science is precisely its taboos which he is accused, these limits it imposes on intelligence to prevent loss. P. And B., although everything is not permitted, anything is possible and science, however, puts barriers of impossibilities. They make fun of a sage who was told the media to become invisible and later said: "Naturally, I did not test! ". Making fun of this reflection is not at all understand the scientific attitude. Try the talisman would accept the possibility of miracles, the supernatural, the indeterminism; would deny science, betray the thought and, moreover, wasting time and looking ridiculous. "
" This book (referring to " Morning of the Magicians ") is the book of reason abolished, the world upside down: the glorification of the irrational. But has the talent to attract interest, and create unexpected relationships, to leave without saying hear what ever imagined, to make people believe in witchcraft, never expressing. Everything in the spirit about human doubt, uncertainty and emotion, is echoed in the book by a great alteration of reality. Modified, truncated trafficked and knowingly or not-a prodigious documentation to make more convincing reality of magic. "
" Pauwels has made itself a metaphysics that transcends all the old philosophies, RP Teilhard de Chardin, which know it is more materialistic and more spiritual matter that spirit. Add to this unrepentant optimism Pauwels and have the philosophy of the Planet. "
" The 'witches' are relevant only insofar as they treasure a piece of scientific truth to be stolen. Scientific truth requires a seriousness, a method of experimentation and a concern for analysis, incompatible with the attitude and literary magic. When you want to study the mysteries of the world must start with a real desire to bring them the real light of intelligence, clarity playful and not so thick haze of vocabulary. "
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