Word: confucius
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...uttered today were to mark the birth of another generation." His somewhat startling fame soon attracted disciples, friends. Margaret Fuller came, then Thoreau; between them The Dial was published. For four years it printed their works, gave the U. S. its first taste of Oriental literature, the Chaldean Oracles. Confucius' Analects...
...Soong Dynasty," most potent Chinese family, includes the First Lady's brother, Finance Minister T.V. Soong, and her sister, Mme H. H. Kung, wife of the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius. Split off from the Soong Dynasty by a family & political quarrel is Mei-ling's sister Mme Sun Yatsen, Communist-sympathizer, widow of the late, great Dr. Sun who founded the Chinese Republic...
This syllabus of culture, or notebook of Durant, lists: ten Greatest Thinkers (Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin) ; ten Greatest Poets (Homer, Author of the Psalms, Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Lipo, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman); 100 Best Books for an education (approximate cost, $300; time required for reading: four years at seven hours per week, ten hours per volume). Syllabuster Durant reviews his favorite modern philosophers (Spengler, Keyserling, Bertrand Russell), his favorite modern literary lights (Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, John Cowper Powys), fills up the rest of his 426 pages with comments on his trips...
...with only 50,000 troops. Thus the 300,000 farmer soldiers of Yen and Feng constitute a stiff "disbandment problem." Last week this problem was being tackled in Shansi by able Dr. H. H. Kung, Disbandment Commissioner Extraordinary, unique in prestige as he is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...
...ticket which tallied with Professor Babbitt's total for the day would win the sweepstakes, minus 10% commission to the promoters.* The average number of writers the professor mentioned was 47. But one day he set a record: 73 quotations, from writers so various as St. Paul, Confucius, Dante, Walter Lippmann...