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Perhaps the most significant aspect of the forthcoming conference is that its members will represent an estimated population of 436,752,000-more than a quarter of the world's population - whose religions are Hindu, Mohammedan, Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist, Animist, Sikh, Jain, Parsee, Jewish, polytheistic and idolatrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Imperial Conference | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

...departure from the Stagirite once allowed, there was no end of change and emendation. The next innovator was Politico, an Italian. This philosopher was an Animist, that is to say, he was full of life. He first introduced the name of the Regulative Faculty. By Anaxagoras, the same thing was called ???, Reason. But aside from being a vague and ambiguous term, Politico, the acutest of his contemporaries, saw that calling this Faculty Reason involved a contradiction of ter???, since Reason could scarcely ever be said to have any influence over its action. Hence he appropriately dubbed it the Regulative Faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CONDITIONED. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

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