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...Supreme Act. Contemplating the situation from the vantage point of his 79 years, Historian Will Durant recently decided it was time to speak out, not only on sexual morality but on morals generally. Said he: "Most of our literature and social philosophy after 1850 was the voice of freedom against authority, of the child against the parent, of the pupil against the teacher. Through many years I shared in that individualistic revolt. I do not regret it; it is the function of youth to defend liberty and innovation, of the old to defend order and tradition, and of middle...
Many Americans will share Durant's broad indignation, many will dissent from it. But one of the remarkable facts is that there is much less indignation in the churches today-at least as far as sexual morality goes. The watchword is to be positive, to stress the New Testament's values of faith, hope and charity rather than the prohibitions of the Commandments...
...Control. After graduating from M.I.T. in 1895, Sloan parlayed a $5,000 grubstake into control of a small New Jersey roller-bearing plant. In 1916 William Durant, the flamboyant founder of General Motors, bought out Sloan, who became a G.M. executive. Only four years later, when Durant was forced out for speculating in G.M. shares, Sloan had shown such a flair for organization that the new Du Pont management made him executive vice president. In 1923 he became president...
...LOUIS XIV, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the eighth volume of their massive study of Western civilization, the Durants describe with wit and a wealth of anecdote an age preoccupied by the confrontation between rationalism and faith...
...LOUIS XIV, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the eighth volume of their massive study of Western civilization, the Durants describe with wit and a wealth of anecdote an age preoccupied by the confrontation between rationalism and faith...