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...broader acquaintance with his countrymen than James and is freer of European influences. He is one of the few scientific philosophers with faith in democracy. Pedagogy is his prime interest and he seeks to introduce the experimental methods of the laboratory to social and political science. He is a Darwinian evolutionist, stressing growth as the hopeful fact of life, utility as the guiding fact. He is greatly admired by Author Durant (1885-), director of the Labor Temple School, Manhattan. Dr. Durant gives the impression of valuing philosophy, "that dear delight" of Plato, not primarily for the intellectual ecstasies...
...today as a character in a ribald polysyllabic ditty beginning: Recent exhaustive researches By Darwin and Huxley and Hall . . . than as the biologist who first generalized upon the development of ectoderm and endoderm, who "freed British scientific thought from its vice of deductive reasoning," who interpreted, clarified, broadened the Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis...
Aldous Huxley, nephew of the great Darwinian, smart, fashionable, blasé, ice-cold, most devilishly clever of all the devilishly clever young littérateurs who make the waterside, of Chelsea inundate all London with lavender and mauve intellectual meanderings, has written down his opinion of the popular music of today. The essay has been published-in Vanity Fair. It defends the thesis that the evolution of popular music has run parallel, on a lower plane, with the evolution of serious music. Beethoven, ultimately and indirectly, is responsible for all the lan- guishing waltz tunes, all the dramatic jazzings...
...Straton has figured prominently in the recent controversy of Fundamentalism versus Modernism, advocating a literal, rather than a modern, interpretation of the Bible. He disbelieves in evolution in the Darwinian sense...
...Pearson himself is one of the world's greatest scientists, a man distinctly in the Darwinian tradition, and exponent of the eugenics movement founded by Francis Galton, professor of applied mathematics at University College, London, Director of the Galton Laboratory there. He has built up almost single-handed the modern science of higher statistics, including the coefficient of correlation, and is editor of Biometrika. One of his greatest works, The Grammar of Science, is the Bible of statisticians and exact scientists. Presumably he hopes to make the Darwin property another such intellectual center as he has founded in London...