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...years across the Red River from Durant, Okla. to Denison, Tex. has stood a private toll bridge, now in receivership. Early this year Texas and Oklahoma finished building a free span close to the toll bridge. The toll bridge receivers went into Federal Court in Houston and obtained an injunction against Texas' opening the free bridge until such time as the Legislature authorized them to sue the State for $180,000 in damages to their property. Obedient to the injunction Governor Sterling had the Texas end of the free bridge barricaded. Wearied by this red-tape delay...
This syllabus of culture, or notebook of Durant, lists: ten Greatest Thinkers (Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin) ; ten Greatest Poets (Homer, Author of the Psalms, Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Lipo, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman); 100 Best Books for an education (approximate cost, $300; time required for reading: four years at seven hours per week, ten hours per volume). Syllabuster Durant reviews his favorite modern philosophers (Spengler, Keyserling, Bertrand Russell), his favorite modern literary lights (Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, John Cowper Powys), fills up the rest of his 426 pages with comments on his trips...
...content with a mere abracadabresque chanting of holy names, Durant follows up his list of required reading with many a hortatory ejaculation. "Absorb every word of Taine's chapter on Byron. . . . Do not miss the odes of Keats. . . . Go then, to William James. . . ." Nothing if not an enthusiast, he exclaims of John Cowper Powys: "Here is the finest American prose since Santayana...
...Significance. Not many philosophers have become popular in their own lifetime, in the sense that their writing has brought them much money. But Syllabuster Will Durant, ably backed by Popularizing Publishers Simon & Schuster, made a killing with his The Story of Philosophy. Critics scoffed at it, pointed out that the sum-total of philosophy could not be compressed or even adequately presented in one book or by one man. Readers bought over 500,000 copies, felt their culture increasing whether they read it or not. Adventures in Genius should suit the same public...
...Author- William James Durant is an escaped Roman Catholic, was educated by French nuns in North Adams, Mass, (his birthplace, 1885), later by Jesuits in Jersey City. He found reporting on Hearst's New York Evening Journal too fast for a philosopher, became professor of many languages at Seton Hall College, South Orange, N. J. He entered the seminary there, but reading in the library cost him his faith. After a tour of Europe he took up graduate work in philosophy, biology, psychology at Columbia University. From 1914-27 he was director of Manhattan's Labor Temple School...