“The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.”

Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5

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Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi 1907–1972

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