In perusing the literature of the past few months, I have read articles unequivocally supportive of all the philosophies and techniques in current use and an equal number antagonistic to the same methods. The authors are people of learning and ability. However, their differences vary from definitive through questionable, to insupportable, because their contentions are based on comparing opposites.
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