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Historical Studies A-12: "International Conflicts in the Modern World," covers Thucydides. Social Analysis 52: "The Great Transformation," has readings from Marx. Finally, Science B-16: "The History of Life," offers readings from Darwin...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Creating a 'Great Books' Curriculum From the Core | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Each member of the class of 1997 has endured the whole Harvard experience and emerged victorious; but for all of the Weber, Blake, Darwin, Virgil, Hegel &c., they also endured a rewardless hardship...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Creme de la Creme | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...valid is that assumption? Consider the opening sentences of Darwin's The Origin of Species...

Author: By David Layzer, | Title: Renewing the Core | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

...Darwin began as a gentleman naturalist. It was in, and for, the working out of his great idea that he became a specialist in zoology, taxonomy, geology, paleontology, animal breeding, plant breeding, embryology, animal behavior, human behavior, sociology and ecology (a discipline he essentially created). Einstein, too, was guided in his scientific work by a single vision. So was Edward Gibbon, who described the guiding idea of his multivolume historical and literary masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a single short sentence: "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion." These examples suggest that someone...

Author: By David Layzer, | Title: Renewing the Core | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

Since Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, biologists have been trying to discover the "origin of life" through some sort of natural process occurring on Planet Earth. TIME's latest article on the possibility of life originating on some of the moons in our solar system is another extension of this false hope of finding life by means of a chance process. Your story says "all the moons lacked was the heat needed to get biological chemistry going." Life is much more complex than this. The statement made by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that "we have organic chemicals mixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 12, 1997 | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

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