Word: evolutionist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apparently the anti-evolutionist demands to see a monkey or an ass transformed into a man, though he must be familiar enough with the reverse process...
...those who protest that rat emotions are not to be compared with human emotions, Dr. Hall replies that human psychology has evolved directly from animal psychology-and that if you do make such a protest "you are not really an evolutionist, and therefore your views deserve little serious consideration...
...compromise between paradoxes, between certainty and uncertainty. . . ." Because his learning was great and his mind keen, he found his way cleanly through legal paradoxes. In his Supreme Court majority opinion upholding the Social Security Act last year, he stated the essence of the philosophy which made him "a judicial evolutionist": "Needs that were narrow or parochial a century ago may be interwoven in our day with the well-being of the nation. What is criticial or urgent changes with the times...
...legislate within vastly widened bounds for what it considers the general good. With the balance of the Court now strongly "liberal," Franklin Roosevelt will lose no advantage in Cardozo's passing, save that to replace him adequately, the President must find not only another "liberal" but a "judicial evolutionist" of rare distinction...
...strong personal views have borne the load. The best known books of Eddington, Jeans and Bertrand Russell are as much treatises on their personal philosophies as they are skilled explanations of Relativity and quantum mechanics. Biologist Julian Huxley, brother of Novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of the late great Evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley is noted for his opinions about Science & Society, and for exposing the anthropological fallacies of Nazi Aryanism, although he has written (with a collaborator) two general books for laymen. Simple Science and More Simple Science. Burly Geneticist John B. S. Haldane fills his books with pungent gibes...