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Last week the state legislature at Darwin passed a law striking down all un equal prohibitions against the aborigines in the Northern Territory and requiring them to attend school in English, since they have no written language. Other states are following suit. Some Australians fear that the natives are not ready for such freedom and should remain wards of the government. Says Western Australia's Native Welfare Minister Edgar Lewis: "Some people think there will be orgies and riots, but I am sure it won't happen...
Misplaced Piety. Barbizon painters yearned for compassion in an era of harsh industrialization. Later they fell into disfavor for supposed sentimentality, but now scholars have resurrected them from the charge of Victorian piety and have shown that their passion for nature was closer to the scientific quests of Darwin than to unqualified love for small dogs and flowers. Now the U.S.'s first exhibition of Daubigny, some 82 oils, prints, and drawings, is on view at an out-of-the-way but ambitious institution, the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh...
Barzun's bugaboo is science-not just the Bomb, but all the works of science. The trouble began with Newton, whose mechanical laws of the universe reduced man to an abstraction. Later, Newton was abetted by Darwin, who said man was at the mercy of evolution, and Freud, who made man a prisoner of his instincts. According to Barzun, there are not two warring cultures, as set forth in C. P. Snow's famed thesis. The war is over and science has won. The humanities have succumbed. The spurious social sciences with their lifeless jargon dominate modern thought...
...spite of his breathless baroque style, Barzun adds nothing new to the literature of dismay. As is often the case with prophets of doom, Barzun overlooks the fact that much of what he finds unpleasant today has always existed, and cannot be blamed on Freud, Darwin, science, literacy, or even advertising...
...themselves for high-level decisions, students study techniques from linear algebra to clinical psychology to computer programming. Along with other required courses, for example, they study "Ideas in the Changing Environment"-how society and business have interacted in important historical periods. First-semester required reading spans 17 books, from Darwin to Freud to Spengler...