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...realist controversy which occupied the minds of the medieval man that these historians write about: does the Zeitgeist have any universal validity or is it merely a magic name for uniting different manifestations of a culture? Bourne does an astute job of showing how the historians arrive at a causal Zeitgeist indirectly and sometimes counter to their own intentions. But besides a hint that invoking a time-spirit becomes almost a necessity for the cultural historian, Bourne neglects a chance to discuss more thoroughly the validity of the Zeitgeist as a unifying historical construct...
...case has been linked here to a growing tendency to blame employment for illnesses where no causal relationship exists. This existing tendency has made the present case "a matter of great importance" in determining employment policies, Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, said recently...
Moreover, I tend to doubt the causal connection between sub-standard housing and exodusing industries. Reports will show that despite the distressing living conditions in certain parts of Cambridge, more industries have come into this city than have left it in the past few years. All of which does not mean that the need for Urban Renewal is not urgent. Harrison Lunger...
...less vivid and appealing aspects. Down the hall, up stairs and downstairs from them lie the other museum. To the footweary they sometimes seem almost impossible, their halls are no long. To those looking for specific objects they may seem warehouses instead of display-places. Yet the causal onlooker can find there immense lore and satisfaction
...unity of culture: only scattered components remain in the mind-ruins, one might almost say. At best, when the youthful mind strives to connect these disjecta membra without having in its possession the means necessary to resurrect them-the historical sequence, the sense of time, the network of causal relations-the student is led to formulate hazardous inductions, fantastic or superficial comparisons, pitiful attempts at synthesis which bring out clearly the disparity between the desire for an integrated kind of knowledge and the fragility of its foundations...