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...Book.? As a small boy, Author Durant lived with his parents and his many brothers in factory towns of Massachusetts & New Jersey. His career as schoolboy differed little from that of any other intelligent schoolboy except that at an early age Author Durant received an invitation from a Roman Catholic Priest: "You must study more, and pray more, and always bear in mind that the church has chosen you to be one of our servants. . . ." For some years Jack (as Author Durant has chosen to call himself in these pages) accepts the invitation to be a priest...
...finds Ariel, a Jewish girl of 15, with whom he falls in love. They marry and find happiness in the pursuit of wisdom and the possession of love. A closing chapter, called "I Become A Daddy" announces, with infinite detail, the birth of a daughter to Mr. & Mrs. Durant...
...this successor to The Story of Philosophy should be given an appearance of artificiality by mannerisms and pretensions which are part of the personality of the author and hence actually evidences of his sincerity. There is, in the first place, no good reason for calling the book (as Mr. Durant does) a "mental autobiography"; its subject is usually something very distinct from Author Durant's intellectual development and its method is far from analytical...
...Alexander Meikljohn's experiment at the University of Wisconsin where "situations rather than subjects" are being studied received the hearty approval of Dr. Durant who believed that great things are to be expected from the experiment...
...arranging the details of the debate with Russell while in the cab, Dr. Durant displayed his fairness in stating. "No, I shall want no final rebuttal. If I were dealing with a rufflan, I should want one to lambaste my opponent, but I trust my friend, here...