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With him-on a voyage which may yet rival that of Darwin's Beagle-are 15 expert helpers. For Simmons seeks to learn the truth about Atlantis, the "continent" that lies in the twilight zone between mythology, history and science. What, when and where was it? Who inhabited it...
Of H. G. Wells' ten " most important books " in their effect on history and civilization, four are distinctly within the field of science: Aristotle's History of Animals (about 354 B. C.); Copernicus' The Revolution of the Heavens (A. D. 1543); Bacon's New Atlantis (1624...
Religious books take four of his choices. He excludes the entire Bible on the ground that it is a whole literature, rather than a book, and merely chooses Isaiah and St. Mark as the two most significant books in the collection. The Koran and the "Great Learning" of Confucius, as...
Second volume--Bacon's "Essays" and "New Atlantis"; Milton's "Areopagitica" and "Tractate on Education"; Sir Thomas Browne's "Religio Medici."
The current number of the Advocate, out today, contains matter of a creditable and interesting nature. The poetry is unusually good. Perhaps the best of the short poems is "Through the Mist," by Walter Winsor,- a pleasing and vivid description. "A Song of June," by R. T. Fisher is a...