Word: elan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest form of consciousness, since it is but a nebula surrounded by dim intuitions, awareness. He predicted rare discoveries in the subconscious. He has substituted for Darwin's "natural" selection a "creative" selection by which, he thinks, man will ultimately surpass his own nature. The stream of life (elan vital), having entered blind alleys in the vegetable kingdom and insect world, has achieved man in the vertebrate phylum, and will not be stopped there. Benedetto Croce (1866-), idol of Italy-although, lately, victim...
...limit of 64. No more the khaki and the Sam Brown belt. Dressed like plain John Citizen, the baker, the butcher, the politician and the banker, he will go his way modest ly in mufti. Ofttimes, doubtless, he will yearn for his military life, its punctilio and its elan. But the rule of the Army is inexorable, and John Jo seph Pershing likes it for its unyieldingness...