Word: essay
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Evangelist of Reason. When he was 19, Wells wrote an essay called The Past and Future of the Human Race. Seldom thereafter did he tackle a less ambitious subject in a spirit less sanguine. He disliked and soon left the evangelistic Protestantism in which he was brought up; but he always remained the most passionate of Protestants, the most eloquent of evangelists...
Besides being vulnerable upon other counts this folksy little essay is hard to surpass as an example of the oversimplification that passes for psychology among so many economists and political scientists. It is an impeccable discussion of the motivation of the donkey, but used in reference to human beings it applies only to those who literally wish to make jackasses of themselves...
...Livingstone credo: "The prior task of education is to inspire, and to give a sense of values and the power of distinguishing . . . what is first-rate from what is not." He restates his counsel of perfection in this month's Atlantic essay (originally a lecture at Toronto's Victoria College). Says he: "Always, soon or late, humanity turns to excellence as naturally as a flower turns to the sun: mankind crucifies Christ and kills Socrates, and they die amid derision and hatred; but in the end they receive the homage of the world. . . . To see the vision...
Three undergraduates of the University made a clean sweep of the Cambridge Centennial Prize Essay contest by winning all three prizes in the college class of entries, it was announced this week by the Centennial Committee. Francis H. George '41, of Cambridge, won the first prize of $200; William E. Reeves '46, of Providence, Rhode Island, came in second and received $150; while Alexander D. Stewart '49, also of Cambridge, took the $50 third prize...
Toward the '50s. From the look of things in the mid-'40s, those who essay to define Uncle Alfred are more likely than ever in the past 30 years to realize that they have something in common with him: humanity. One of the best and littlest magazines, Horizon, has kept going in London through all the blitzes since 1940, elegantly edited by Cyril Connolly; among its contributors "blast" is too thoroughly understood as a technical term to be wished on anyone. In the U.S., two old Fugitive poets, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate, are editing the Kenyan...