Like Adams, Franklin, and Jefferson, Hamilton had probably fallen under the sway of deism, which sought to substitute reason for revelation and dropped the notion of an active God that will intervene in human affairs.
When randomness and demagoguery is substituted for reason, liberal democracy and universal human rights are endangered.
That kind of doublespeak is what happens when tribal values, arrogantly but mistakenly framed as "progressive" and "liberal", are substituted for reasoned, empirical based thinking.
(Her detractors, by the way, don't label her forthright: one, who declined to be named, described her writing as "grotesquely cruel, substituting melodrama for reasoned analysis and wit for sincerity"). Dowd's handbag is an incoherent mess of papers.
In a speech at the end of October, Agnew, speaking of "arrogant ones" who "have a masochistic compulsion to destroy their country's strength whether or not it is constructive," said, "They rouse themselves to a continual emotional crescendo — substituting disruptive demonstrations for reason".
He saw individual life as the fundamental reality: reason as a function of life is substituted for absolute reason, and for absolute truth he substituted the perspective of each individual ("I am I, and my circumstance").
We reasoned that substituting the main sterol ergosterol by cholesterol in yeast should permit domain formation and discriminate between physical and sterol structure-dependent functions.
Elaine Shock, the singer's publicist, said O'Connor does not plan to explain her reasons for substituting a photo of the Pope in the live broadcast.
He substituted science and reason for faith and subservience.
31] described the Soviet decision to resume nuclear testing as "a form of atomic blackmail, designed to substitute terror for reason".
