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[[argumentation?]] [[red underline]] pushed to its  extreme limits; [[/red underline]] whether it be or [[red underline]] monarchy [[/red underline]] or a [[red underline]] democracy. [[/red underline]] The intelligent wide awake man of good judgement, who is not a reactionary knows when he has struck his paradox and when he should choose a new stand point instead of pushing thru [[red underline]] his extreme adherence to logic [[/red underline]] based on premises which [[[red underline]] where not entirely [[/red underline]] correct or in which some factors have been overlooked.
  Here is where the [[red underline]] dogmatist and reactionary [[/red underline]] become dangerous men. doctrinaires
April 20.  I am still much impressed with [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] our discussion of yesterday and by my deduction of that story of the [[red underline]] Paradox [[/red underline]] in mathematics.
  Had a joint meeting 

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with Stratton, Bogert and Milliken in which I showed them my report on [[red underline]] Optical Glass prepared for Naval Board. [[/red underline]]
  Stratton says it is excellent and my recommendation hit exactly the nail on the head [[strikethrough]] tho [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Bogert and Milliken [[/red underline]] who are less in the habit of handling [[red underline]] practical matters are a little less alive to it [[/red underline]] but cheerfully approve of it.
  Left in evening train for New York
April 21  Albert drove me directly to Yonkers spent all morning dictating letters. 
[[left margin note]] B 2 h [[/left margin note]] Made official plea with Capt. [[red underline]] Oscar T. Crosby, assistant secretary Treasury to show how absurd is the new tax bill on surplus profits. [[/red underline]]
  After lunch went to see amateur vaudeville show

Transcription Notes:
Paradox: i.e. Cantor's Paradox (set theory)