Word: cartesian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Was De Gaulle? Like many another professional soldier, De Gaulle could write, and write well. His style was austere, persuasive, marked by a quality of Cartesian logic. And his writings portrayed the writer as he then was. To some of these expressions of the years between wars, his critics turn today for evidence of what he is. Fairly, they can be taken only as evidence of what he was. A revealing sample from his famed The Army of the Future (1934) : "Men, in the army as elsewhere, are not fashioned solely by training. Life sets its mark upon them...
...prize of $300 to I. Bernard Cohen 4G, of West Newbury, Mass., for an essay entitled "Greenwich Village War Light: Cartesian Philosophy Examined Through Cartesina Physics...