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The university founders were , of course , liberal Protestants , and they ( particularly White ) did actively oppose religions that were dogmatic , authoritarian , or , above all , “ sectarian . To these purposes conspired the veneration for relies , the worship of images , the idolatry of saints and martyrs , the religious inviolability of sanctuaries , the consecration of cemeteries , but , above all , the doctrine of purgatory and masses for the relief of the dead . Regularly , no layman may sit within the presbyterium , or sanctuary , nor may he read any part of the Liturgy , much less pray publicly , or serve the priest at the altar , or , above all , offer the Sacrifice . But , above all , what is demonstrated is a law of nature : wherever the natural balance is broken or altered , there are always some lamentable consequences for the quality of life on the planet . My memory was precisely of the same kind : it seldom failed to preserve most tenaciously a favourite passage of poetry , a play-house ditty , or , above all , a Border-raid ballad ; but names , dates , and the other technicalities of history escaped me in a most melancholy degree . The pragmatism that Posner espouses implies looking at problems concretely , experimentally , without illusions , with an emphasis on keeping diverse paths of inquiry open , and , above all , with the insistence that social thought and action be evaluated as instruments to desired human goals rather than as ends in themselves . Now I hate such crooked and perverse men , although I love them if they will be corrected and come to prefer the learning they obtain to money and , above all , to prefer thee to such learning , O God , the truth and fullness of our positive good , and our most pure peace . But , above all , he is a careful student of the inevitable complicity of state and society within modernity . But , above all we must have our MPs properly educated in their constitutional duties . His ten commandments are me first ( let me live as I please ) , humans first ( let all other living things die for my benefit ) , sperm first ( no birth control ) , birth first ( no abortions ) , males first ( no women 's rights ) , my culture first ( no human rights ) , my politics first ( lousy liberals / rotten reactionaries ) , my country first ( wave the flag , the flag , the flag ) , and , above all , profit first.We worship the gobble-god ... It is true that we exchange because we have needs ; without them , trade would not exist , nor labour either , nor , above all , the division that renders it more productive . But experience of life since she had been in London , and , above all , conversation with Mr. Heatherley , had greatly modified her opinions . But , above all , computers offer control capabilities - - the ability to present , receive , process , and manage information ( Kozma 1987 ; Rice 1984 ) . The progress of liberal Islamic ideas is impeded in East Pakistan today by the presence of a powerful minority of the Hindus , the existence of communist fifth columnists , and , above all , by the hold of the conservative ulama , who are wedded to medieval scholastic notions about Islam .