Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The redoubtable Governors Ferguson (see p. 9) of Texas have solved the knotty problem of man's origin. They perceived that while "evolution" has become anathema among good Baptists, the same flower of evil, though by another name, would smell but half as poisonous. So by administrative fiat it...
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). It was to unite and reinterpret these objections, to save religion from reason and at the same time preserve science from skepticism, that Kant paraded methodically under the lindens at Konigsberg. He accomplished his task and inaugurated the era of critical philosophy by showing: that not...
William James (1842-1910) met the needs of his countrymen by assessing metaphysics at its "cash value" for the man in the street and by supplying a philosophic sanction for meetinghouse theology. His "pragmatism" turned the face of thought from considering the quiddities of scholasticism and the post-mortems of...
This test of evolution would be decisive only in the event that pregnancy, whether productive of healthy offspring or not, could be induced. If it could, fresh and final evidence would be established that humans and anthropoids belong to a common genus of animal life. To be complete, the hybrid...
THE DECLINE OF THE WEST-Oswald Spengler - Translated by Charles Francis Atkinson-Knopf ($6). The U. S. publication of what is commonly regarded as the outstanding historico-philosophical treatise of 20th Century Germany is an item of import to be noted if not investigated by the average man. The book...