Word: conceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attitude. Mr. Spaulding, a professor of Philosophy at Princeton, has attacked the subject of "What Am I"? and "What Shall I Believe"? with the full weight of a wide knowledge of philosophy, modern psychology, and the physical sciences behind him. Working up gradually, through an ethical philosophy to the concept of religion in general, as distinct from any particular theology, he builds his foundation upon the basis of generally accepted scientifically demonstratable truths. To bridge the charm between philosophy and religion, one must, however, as Mr. Spaulding points out, take flight from the solid earth, and to pronounce upon...
...Secretary is not selfishly collecting autographs. He wants to see the six potent signatures affixed to a multilateral treaty "renouncing war" among the U. S., France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Italy. Last week he transmitted his concept of what such a treaty should be to the foreign Powers named, and asked whether they would be willing to sign it, perhaps with modifications...
...Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept of how to win the War was to husband large reserves of less experienced troops and forge their mettle, year after year in minor actions and intensive training behind the lines. Such thrift was long the despair of the French. It may even have prevented an Allied victory...
...person who is able to see, language seems entirely a visual idiom. The gigantic concept of enabling those who cannot see, to imagine the meanings of the words they read, was the beginning of an extraordinary change in the condition of people who had heretofore been only a little less tragically useless than lepers. Now competent organizations function to aid the blind. In Mount Healthy, the Trader sisters, one blind, both with foresight, have established the Clovernook Press. There, by subscription, are printed books in braille. Kindly senators pass laws; a beneficent government charges no postage on books mailed...
Spiritual suicide is a cruel delicacy for the current theatre. With amazing daring, Mr. Kelly has written of two people in whom daring had died. The thoughtful, courageous quality of his attempt is scarcely obscured by deficiencies in his result. Passages of perilously rich writing intrude; clarity of concept is not constant. Yet the play, provocative, never bores...