Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becoming is a consequence", said Dr. Driesch. "Casuality is the conception of a becoming as a effect. If we say there is no cause, then life is causeless, which hypothesis we must reject. As there is a cause, and it is not mechanical, it must be non-mechanical or intellect...
...processes of life are not mechanical," declared Dr. Driesch, "they must be nonmechanical. And the nonmechanical agent, which is neither metaphysical nor psychical, we name intellect...
...speaker went on to discuss the conception of intellect which must function by suspending the act of becoming. It keeps a potentiality in its potential state until it wants it to become an actuality, he said. If intellect gave impetus to matter it would violate the principle of the conversation of energy...
...robot for two hours a day so that the remainder of the day I can be G. B. S. Give me the most mechanical job you can find. Send me into those soul killing occupations which are always denouncing, so that I do not exhaust my intellect...
...conception of an academic education as essentially a gymnasium for the training of the intellect in preparation for mastering, in the professional schools, facts and theories of lasting importance, as you put it in your editorial of June 11, represents, undoubtedly, the current undergraduate point of view. And yet the facts acquired in college ought to be quite as important as those acquired in the grammar schools and distinctly as important, both from the cultural and practical point of view, as any acquired in the professional schools. That literature, the classics, philosophy, history may have a permanent value in themselves...