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...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...
Opposition to the teaching of evolution in U. S. schools did not die out-or even languish-after the death of the most celebrated anti-evolutionist. Teacher Scopes was fined $100 (later remitted) and left Tennessee;* The Tennessee anti-evolution law still stands. Restrictive laws are also on the statute books of Mississippi an Arkansas. Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution, one of the ablest biologists in the U. S., charges that there is even more pussyfooting in present-day textbooks than there was three decades...
Doom? Eugenists view with alarm the world's future population. From England wrote Major Leonard Darwin, 82, eugenist son of Evolutionist Charles Darwin: "My firm conviction is that if widespread eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization...