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...young correspondent. When the rains came, they rode in water, slept in water; they endured cold, hunger, rags, sudden surprise, desperate flight. Through it all, yellow-bearded, slouch-hatted Commandant-General Smuts carried in his saddlebags, along with his biltong (dried venison) and coffee, a Greek Testament and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In retrospect, he seems to have fought not so much for a free Boer State as for a more tolerant British imperialism. But he fought to the very end, to the war's last action, the siege of O'okiep...
...more 'realistic' than that." But readers who could remember back before Hitler, before the Depression, recognized that much of FORTUNE'S brave new Europe was in a high old tradition, had been dreamed again & again by Europeans themselves. A host of great Europeans, from Kant to Ortega y Gasset, had agreed that in unity lay the only European future that made sense. In 1929, the high noon of France's hegemony on the continent, the great Aristide Briand sent a memorandum to all European governments proposing steps toward a European federation. From 26 nations came approval...
...varieties). First guest for the picklemaker was wry, omniscient Fred Allen. He was very funny. He answered every query he could get his rasping voice on and, substituting for Questioner Clifton Fadiman in the second half, he stumped Experts Fadiman, Kieran, Levant and Adams with quotations from Philosophers Spencer, Kant and Hegel...
...biographer. He was born in New Haven (1839). He went to Yale. He taught at Yale. He died in New Haven (1903). He never married. Save for a brief period of postgraduate work in France and Germany, he saw little more of the world outside than Philosopher Immanuel Kant (who never left his native Königsberg). "His life was nothing but self and science and then he tore the self away...
...Phil. 10 Lewis moves into his medium. For this and his Kant course he is known. As usual, though, the lectures are slow and lack any pep-appeal. The reading is sound, interesting, but definitely difficult. And if you decide to learn all about Kant, and take Phil. 15, it is a good plan to have a few snap courses to go along with it. The course is absolutely grueling, with a paper every week. But you come out knowing Kant, and this is awfully handy on divisionals