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...substituted Shelley for the Bible. Goethe, Heine, Swinburne, Whitman were major prophets. He was shipped to Australia at 16?a shotgun cure for chronic appendicitis ?and while teaching school in the desolate bush was "converted," by reading the pragmatic philosophers, the evolutionists and a religiously-minded biologist (James Hinton), to a rational mysticism that found no God but much joy in the mechanistic universe. This joy was an artist's joy, "a many-sided and active delight in the wholeness of things"?body, sense, emotion, intellect in harmony...
...memory of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), who is probably better known to the average U.S. undergraduate today as a character in a ribald polysyllabic ditty beginning: Recent exhaustive researches By Darwin and Huxley and Hall . . . than as the biologist who first generalized upon the development of ectoderm and endoderm, who "freed British scientific thought from its vice of deductive reasoning," who interpreted, clarified, broadened the Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis...
THOBBING?Henshaw Ward?Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). "When a person THinks without curiosity, has an Opinion because he likes it, Believes what is handy?then he THOBS." Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin, able Princeton biologist, has called it, more simply, "wishful thinking." The inventor of the new word, excusably pleased with himself, hammers for nearly 400 pages to drive it into the language. Before he has done he admits that he is probably thobbing himself...
...Sterne and Smollett in English 28 at 10 o'clock this morning in the New Lecture Hall, a lecture well worth attending. Biology I, however, is a course that is so embracing in its scope that almost every lecture is attractive to one who is not by profession a biologist. Professor Parker is speaking this morning on the geographical distribution of animals...
Died. Dr. William Bateson, 66, distinguished British biologist, famed investigator of the Mendelian theory of heredity; in London...