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(1978) Selected writings 1909–1953, Dordrecht, Springer.
It is a noteworthy fact that the Catholic Church exercises a persistent influence not only upon the general population but also upon the leadership of academic circles. The Church maintains this influence with the help of the powerful edifice of her philosophy, which she calls the only true philosophy, and she expresses this influence through the large number of Catholic student fraternities, as well as through the more loosely organized groups of Catholic students, such as the Free Association of Free Catholic Students and the various Catholic student organizations that perform charitable work. All the young students who are banded together in these groups appeal, in scientific disputes, to the Catholic philosophy. It is the scientific shield with which the educated Catholic, who acknowledges the validity of scientific thinking in other spheres, protects himself whenever he is attacked on religious grounds.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9761-5_4
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Reichenbach, H. (1978)., The student body and catholicism [1912c], in H. Reichenbach, Selected writings 1909–1953, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 104-107.
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