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...uncommon conscience, Wedgwood supported both the French and American Revolutions, though he well knew that they would hurt his business. An ardent antislaver, Wedgwood sent Ben Franklin his historic medallion showing a chained Negro pleading, "Am I not a man and a brother?" And he became Evolutionist Charles Darwin's grandfather. At Josiah Wedgwood's burial place in the Stoke-on-Trent church, his epitaph reads: he "converted a rude and inconsiderable manufactory into an elegant art and an important part of national commerce." More than that, he annealed common clay with an uncommon love of life...
This year Hobbes, Locke, Bacon, and other "classics" were dropped from a reading list that now centers almost exclusively around late 19th and 20 the Century commentators. Last year's sophomores learned about the biological concept of culture through reading, in chronological order, Mill, Darwin, Spencer and come. This year the sophomores read only Kluckhohn, treating the concept as a concept rather than as a study in intellectual history...
...creations of nature are more exotic than the flowers that trap insects in order to transfer pollen from their male to their female reproductive organs. Though the workings of these trap flowers were known by Charles Darwin, their intricate mechanisms are only now coming to light...
Donald Fleming's new edition of Loeb's Mechanistic Conception of Life explains both the former stellar position and the present eclipse of the biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924). When the first edition of this book appeared in 1912, Loeb ranged in poplar opinion with Galileo, Newton, and Darwin: he was a great-scientific innovator, who applied the principles of his science to the problems of ordinary men. This second edition of Loeb's most famous book-recalls an alternative to today's canon that the principles of scientific inquiry may be legitimately applied only to the defined problems...
...Sudan-where he figured conspicuously in one of history's last great cavalry charges-Churchill also turned out excellent books on the fighting. He had honed his style with extensive reading: Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Macaulay's History of England, Plato's Republic, Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Aristotle's Politics. By 1899, he had achieved such success as author and correspondent that he resigned his commission, went off to cover Britain's war against the Boer settlers in South Africa. His exploits in and out of Boer prison camps...