Word: dualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orton, is conserva tism. In it he sees the compensating pole of western civilized thought and conduct - indeed, "together these principles reflect the polarity of life itself, of all phenome nal existence. Force and inertia, action and reaction, change and stability, the dynamic and the static - without this universal dualism, meaning and reality, on the human plane at least, vanish into nothingness." Author Orton finds confirmation of the deep "political instinct of the English that out of the struggles of Whig and Tory two strong parties finally emerged frankly calling themselves Liberal and Conservative. Each has developed...
...World Stuff. Huxley flatly rejects the philosophic dualism which divides truth into two kinds, scientific and revealed. He declares that the world, living and lifeless, mental and physical, is composed of one stuff. "In reproduction there is no moment at which life enters . . . the offspring is merely a detached portion of the parental living substance...
...were really devoted to the same long-standing cause: the restoration of the French monarchy. Those in France naturally still found it expedient to placate Adolf Hitler. Those in French Africa found it profitable to side with the U.S. invasion forces. There was even a special advantage in this dualism: the monarchist movement was hedged against any outcome...
...which has lost one of its 26 concentrators to the more immediately practical intensive Russian. A general reduction of students in the field is foreseen as a trend resulting from the war and only half of the concentrators are expected back for the summer session. Despite the department's dualism of classical and modern literature, no changes in requirements for concentration have been found necessary and the Faculty, entirely part-time tutors, has gone unaffected...
Shrewdly Krogh casts himself in the role of defender of Aryanism. For thousands of years, says he, "Nordic man" has believed in the unity of body and spirit. By exaggerating the spirituality of race feeling, the anti-evolutionists are importing a non-Aryan, Oriental dualism of body and spirit...