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Scientific Succession. Every culture in the past, says Northrop, has had a philosophical basis (a theory of the nature of man and what is good for him). Setting out to prove it in 435 pages of closely reasoned analyses of the histories of Mexico, the U.S., Britain, Germany, Russia and...
Reverend Anarchist. The 100,000 franc ($830) Pléiade Prize went to a 33-year-old Catholic priest, Jean Natal Grosjean for his metaphysical poem Terre du Temps. Father Grosjean sings: "Anarchy is order between persons. All the rest is merely commerce." He scorns the church's philosophic...
Robert Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago, who believes that a right good education can be packed into less than a five-foot shelf, picked the world's "ten greatest books" for readers of the Chicago Daily News. His list: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Plato's...
. . . What does Mr. Dewey consider the fruits of our too-well-remembered science, the blood-soaked fields of Europe? I think Thomas Aquinas can help us to emerge from our state of barbarism if Mr. Dewey & Co. will just give him a chance! Bravo Mr. Hutchins!
Will Democracy Survive? "We must believe that man can discover truth, .goodness and right by the exercise of his reason" in the tradition of Aristotle, the medieval philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas and the foremost living lay Thomist, Jacques Maritain (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940).