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Long has the morning walk down Garden Street rendered the Radcliffe girl precious moments of solitary contemplation. Long has it provided her the fleeting opportunity to establish a Thou relationship with Nature and its secret beauties. Time was when her wispy passage cheered motorists wending disconsolately to work, when her...
"How do I know what I think 'till I see what I say," Alfred North Whitehead quoted someone as saying. One can imagine H. Stuart Hughes reading his new book--History as Art and Science--with the same wonderment. For in the space of 107 pages Hughes has collected five...
Science Fact. The men at Litton are aware of the problems, but they are optimistic about the long-range effects of technological revolution, believing that great new industries will arise to create even more employment. Thornton sees technology as eventually "freeing man's intellect for decision making, and freeing...
Crusader & Yogi. In many Western eyes, Buddhism is socially useless. It has only a limited tradition of good works; the chief duty of monks and nuns is contemplation. In The Lotus and the Robot, Arthur Koestler says of Oriental mysticism in general: "The messianic arrogance of the Christian crusader is...
Partially because what has gone before was too farcical to prepare the stage, but also because of its great difficulty, the Don Juan in Hell scene was not a success on opening night. The switch to philosophy was too abrupt, and the actors pounced clumsily on the occasional humorous lines...