Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal College of Surgeons' farm is close to the late great Charles Darwin's home, Downe House, at Downe, Kent. Buckston Browne, 81, a London surgeon who worships Darwin's memory, bought the house, restored it with Darwin's furniture and tools and gave the whole to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. That was two summers...
Last April Charles William Anderson Scott, a rangy young man who was once champion boxer of the Royal Air Force, landed his Gipsy-Moth at Port Darwin, Australia 9 days 3 hr. 20 min. after leaving Kent, England. His time just beat the record of Wing-Commander Kingsford-Smith; but Lieut. Scott wearily declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds." Last week Lieut. Scott arrived back in England. His time from Australia was 10 days, 23 hr.-nearly two days better than Kingsford-Smith's record for that direction. Ill from exhaust fumes...
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...
...brilliant set of literary and artistic notables. Like her rival and townsman, Anna Seward is remembered better for her life than for her works. Her poems describing the explorations and exploits of Captain Cook receive less consideration from Miss Ashmun than her meetings with Walter Scott; Dr. Darwin, the great Darwin's grandfather; Romney, who painted her portrait twice; Carey, the translator of Dante; and the poet Southey. Other men of similar note pass across the background of "The Singing Swan." Boswell, to whom she gave much scandal about the great doctor, Garrick, Reynolds, Coleridge, and Adam Smith...
What Is Going to Happen Next? Physics is like "a mother who has just given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to happen next." ? Charles Galton Darwin (Edinburgh U.), mathematician grandson of the Charles Darwin...