Word: kant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally difficult and should not be taken until Junior year, except for 18 on William James and Henri Bergson, and 12 on Plato, which is excellently given by Wild and suggested for Sophomores. Other courses which were especially recommended are 11 on St. Augustine and 15 and 15a on Kant...
...them died there). When the Boers took prisoners they swapped rags for uniforms, then turned the soldiers-loose. With a commando of 360 Smuts set out to invade the Cape, still hoping the Boers there would rise. In his saddlebags he carried two books: a Greek Testament, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. The British stuck grimly to his heels. There was no rising, and his raid was an almost continuous running fight. His march of 700 miles in five weeks was a record even for Boers. At the end, with 50,000 British troops after him. Smuts...
...regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana handkerchief!' . . . Kant, while living in Holland, lived in 13 different places and changed his abode 24 times; Voltaire [was] inordinately vain, unscrupulous, once a forger and seemingly ever tempted by suicide. . . . William James often thought of suicide...
...title of Meiklejohn's essay was "A Reply to Edward Caird's Criticism of Kant's Ethics." He received an A.B. from the University of Wiscousin...
Thence, I out to the Court, and very pretty it be in the snow, and along the River to watch the skating but saw no bit of beauty there; so I back to the Tower to read Kant, and by and by to bed. But Lord! How cold the sheets...