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...Wrights of the aeroplane, Bell of the telephone, Marconi of the wireless will be mere signposts marking the evolution of mechanical progress? They could not press agent themselves in immortal language and their memory will perish. But Dr. Johnson had a press agent in Boswell, Darwin had one in Huxley, and Benjamin Franklin, like Goethe, Leonardo, Dante and Cellini, was his own press agent. If you would have fame, "that last infirmity of noble minds," give up building skyscrapers, railroads, empires, military machines, and write an immortal song or a book of witty epigrams...
Early Protestants (after Luther) set up the Bible to replace the authority of the Church. Their zealous quotation of the Bible soon made them more dogmatic than Catholics. Even Isaac Newton wrote with unperturbed faith about the miracles in Genesis. But his grand children-in-science, Darwin, Huxley, and historical criticism, hinted that not even the Bible was inerrant, so that now Steinmetz, a Unitarian, is forced to say that religion and science are unrelated...
...most notable literary biographies of recent years. This biography of one of America's foremost historians tells, largely in Fiske's own words, of his boyhood and youth, his early championship of the "cosmic philosophy," his intimate association with such leaders of thought as Herbert Spencer, Thomas Huxley and Charles Darwin and his services as an historian and man of letters. The biographer, a life-long friend and associate of Fiske, has written with unusual intimacy and understanding and by his extensive use of Fiske's own lively letters and journals, gives a peculiarly vivid picture, both of Fiske himself...
Professor Ripley is one of the leading authorities on economics in the country. In 1908 he was the Huxley memorial lecturer of the Royal Anthropological Institute in London...
Professor W. Z. Ripley, of the Economic Department, will sail for London on Wednesday to be gone three weeks. He will deliver the annual Huxley Memorial Lecture in commemoration of Thomas Henry Huxley's work in the field of ethnology, before the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. This lecture is in substance a recognition of work done in the preparation of his great book, "The Races of Europe...