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...sides. He undertook to demonstrate the principle of evolution working through all the forms of thought in Francis Bacon's "province." His theory often outran his data but in the main he preserved for philosophy its touch with things practical. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was "the child of Darwin and the brother of Bismarck." He sought to "correct" his pious, feminine nature by glorifying ruthless masculinity, the survival of the strongest. He ascended the Engadine and sent down his poetic prophet, "Zarathustra," to announce the death of the gods, the birth of supermen and the doctrine, "live dangerously...
...Married. Darwin P. Kingsley Jr., son of the potent president of the New York Life Insurance Co.; to Miss Heywood Mason Butler, of Rumson...
Londoners of a Victorian cast of mind peeped cautiously last week into a new book, The Need for Eugenic Reform, by Major Leonard Darwin. They had not yet recovered from The Origin of Species by the Major's late father, Charles Darwin. Their horridest fears were stirred when they discovered that the "eugenic reform" demanded by the major is a law penalizing individuals who bring into the world a greater number of children than their income will permit them to support decently...
Stouter-hearted readers pondered well Major Darwin's proposals...
...memory of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), who is probably better known to the average U.S. undergraduate 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...