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...made him less certain. He foresaw that "longing" was not the cause of one species merging into another. But he saw the merging, came to be assured that the world's fauna were not divided into rigorous tribes but were, rather, in a continuous and universal state of flux; he began to look for the real reasons behind this perpetual revolution...
...first report of the Committee on Relations with the Alumni shows that a consistent effort has been made to keep the forty-thousand odd graduates of the University not only aware but well informed of the flux of life in and about the Yard. Undergraduates as a rule have no conception of the vast bulk of public opinion which lies in the hands of the alumni; what happens in Cambridge today may result in headlines in the daily press tomorrow, but the most far-reaching consequences will always depend in large measure on the graduates spread over the world...
...limited but unimpassive consciousness. He has maintained a changing balance of domination in the wills of his characters, and the movement of successive mutations of superiority and inferiority mark the progressions in the plot. Mr. Muir's psychology, symbolism, and philosophy are inextricably dove-tailed, while the constant flux of affirmation and negation in the mind of Hans may be capable of many interpretations. There is his constant desire for the confirmation of reality: "He doubted his eyes, and had to feel things with his hands to know them." There is his constant desire for the unattainable tranquility that intellectual...
...Harvard the work of these men is particularly interesting in its relationship to the college, for it becomes more apparent with each new development in this period of flux in the evolution of the college curriculum that before any racial or important changes can be effective in higher education the ground must be fully prepared in the primary, and, more specifically, in the secondary schools. For purposes of effective cooperation in order to avoid those dangerous pitfalls which yawn for the incoming Freshman whenever the purposes of school and college diverge even slightly from the parallel, no finer means could...
...specimens, made inferences, founded "science." He was tough-minded. None of Plato's mystical generalizations for him. He worked out the first "organon," or manual of logical thought. His fault was "excessive moderation." He corrected errors in earlier nature students, but missed their sense of life's flux and change. Where Plato gave the Catholic Church a political form which lasts today, Aristotle's "organon" lasted only through the unphilosophical pomp and glory of Rome and through the dusty scholasticism of the Middle Ages to Francis Bacon (1561-1626). This energetic Elizabethan went to Cambridge...