Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discusses great religions (Greek polytheism, Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism) and a number of thinkers whom philosophers do not consider philosophers but whose thought and actions have been important to man's mind (St. Francis, St. Benedict, Karl Marx, Machiavelli, Byron). There are expositions of great books, Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Spinoza's Ethics, and the History is almost as full of poems as an anthology...
...profound philosophic and religious issues were William Aylott Orton's The Liberal Tradition (TIME, Dec. 3) and Norman Cousins' Modern Man Is Obsolete. Professor Orton's book sought to trace the decomposition of liberalism through the loss of its spiritual content. Author Cousins' 59-page essay is written with a kind of urgency less eloquent than headlong. When the atom bomb vaporized Hiroshima, he says, it rendered obsolete "every aspect of man's activities, from machines to morals, from physics to philosophy, from politics to poetry." If man does not wish to become extinct...
Among the things Leonardo had "firs in his mind and then in his hands" were anatomy (he dissected over 30 corpses); hydraulics (he planned a canal project on the Arno); horses (he wrote an essay on their proportions); airplanes (he made small models which flew); cartography (he made bird's-eye-view military maps for the Tyrant Cesare Borgia); weapons (he invented tanks, portable bridges, one-man submarines, super-catapults); landscape (he wrote the first treatise on landscape painting); botany, geology, sculpture, and architecture...
...still but never small voice of an 18th-Century poet can possibly be heard above all this atomic bombast, may I commend to the attention of your readers and the "bomb committee" the following excerpt from Pope's Essay...
...FROM "AN ESSAY...