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...takes on Hobbes, Hume and others for asserting that the human mind fundamentally is a sensory organ, rather than an instrument that can also intellectualize. He dismasts Darwin for categorizing man as simply an animal with higher sensory perceptions, rather than an organism that, alone among living creations, can conceive such abstractions as right and wrong. Adler is equally hard on determinists like Marx on grounds that if all consequences are predetermined, then no man can be held responsible for his acts...
...compiler's one-page synopsis that includes a few brief quotations, the force of this particular diary is all but lost and in a few awkward words the reader is abruptly shuttled across one of the many connecting bumps in Mallon's text and is confronted with Charles Darwin's account of life at Cambridge. For someone who has read Bentley's book, Mallon's commentary adds nothing; for someone who has not, this brief glance fails to capture the subtle qualities that might encourage further investigation of the diary...
...April, they rocketed Tan Son Nhut, the huge airfield through which millions of American soldiers had passed over the years, coming into the war zone or going back to "the world." The last two Americans to die before Saigon's fall were killed in the attack: Marine Lance Corporal Darwin Judge and Marine Corporal Charles McMahon...
...Charles Darwin would have been proud of Don Sweeney...
Having contributed to what he thinks is compelling evidence confirming that Bomby evolved, Eisner sees no reason to choose Darwin at the expense of God. Says he: "Why not think of a supreme deity who devised the scheme of evolution...