Word: darwins
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Born the year (1859) in which Darwin's Origin of Species came out, Dewey marked the crest of a tide that had begun to swell with the French Revolution. No man so completely summed up the raw, rationalistic credo of his century-belief in the here & now, in the necessity for perpetual adjustment to change, in the idea that man has no provable end, only "ends that are literally endless...
Married. Prince Edmond Poniatowski, 26, great-great-great-grandnephew of Stanislas August Poniatowski, last King of Poland (1764-95); and Anne Darwin Goodrich, 27, granddaughter of James Putnam Goodrich, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Indiana; in Rhinebeck...
Onetime Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Owen J. Roberts was elected president of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Among the new members chosen at the meeting: George F. Kennan, new U.S. Ambassador to Moscow; Sir Charles Darwin, grandson of the evolutionary theorist and Illinois' Senator Paul H. Douglas...
...pitted himself against opponents even more formidable than Milton Berle -Darwin, Freud, Marx and Satan. He gives hell to democrats for not being democratic, to capitalists for being greedy, to all the West for giving Communism an opening by not living up to its own Christian faith. He has harangued statesmen about war & peace and young brides about their sex life. He has announced that he prays every morning for Joseph Stalin, and he has approvingly quoted a heretic (Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr) on the Catholic Hour. His influence as a preacher is incalculably great...
...Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein. † New coinage meaning "collection of topics." * Positivists are the philosophical school, virtually dominant in the U.S. and Britain today, which suggests that philosophy is merely a tool for the logical analysis...