Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crime, war, oppression, and the other social cataclysms of the world may be traced to the "degenerate trends in human evolution which are producing millions of animals of our species inferior in mind and body," Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, declared in a Lowell Lecture last night...
...conclusion, Dean Matthews did examine what he called the paradox of the World made flesh,--of God dwelling among men. "How God could become man has always been a baffling mystery," he said. "But the paradox is not so very unreasonable. The way God reveals himself is through human personalities; the Word has over come through inspired persons. So it was that the Word in its complete sense came in a human, personal, life, through a man in complete harmony with God. We must accept the incarnation of the second person of the Trinity; when we do it crystallizes...
...moment it hears the musical signal. When this conditioned response is set up Dr. Culler can easily find the threshold of hearing by steadily diminishing the loudness of the signal until the animal no longer responds by running. Dogs, which hear best, have about the same acuity as human beings...
...Culler's research programs has resulted in a tentative explanation of a bizarre phenomenon known as the "XRay Effect." Several clinicians had noticed that when human heads were exposed to X-rays, a temporary improvement in hearing frequently occurred. Dr. Culler confirmed and explained this phenomenon. Studying X-rayed dogs, he found that the irradiation weakened the pituitary control of the pancreas, which thereupon released more insulin in the blood. The insulin excess lowered the blood's sugar content, which in turn lowered the density and viscosity of the fluids in the hearing mechanism of the inner...
...gesticulating freely but not dramatically, small, white-haired Dean Matthews went on to explain away rationalism. Predicating his remarks with a defense of free thought, he declared that even the rationalist, who would place all faith on his own reason, was subject to the laws of probability, for human reason may not lead to truth,--may be based on false hypotheses. Moreover, some attitude must be taken toward life, for we must live; and of the several alternatives religious faith is by far the most satisfying...