Word: kante
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Five years ago Professional Wrestler Ralph ("Wild Red") Berry was injured in the ring and had to spend months in a hospital. To while away the time he read a few books-the Bible, Plato, Aristotle aad Kant, he says. Last week in Chattanooga, Wild Red was wrestling again...
...drew plans for a one-man submarine and a "flying carriage." In Sweden's House of Nobles he spoke brilliantly in favor of trade, liquor-control laws, and the decimal system. He was a physicist who anticipated Kant and Laplace in the nebular hypothesis, and a paleontologist far ahead of his time. His contributions to science included a modern theory of molecular magnetics, a system of crystallography, a mercury air pump, and a method of determining longitude at sea from the moon...
...have been made by men in their 30s (metaphysicians run five years older). Spinoza began his major work when he was 23 and finished it by 43; Schopenhauer published his masterpiece (The World as Will and Idea) at 31. But a few of the best-known philosophers were laggards: Kant spent the years from 46 to 57 on The Critique of Pure Reason...
They appear in The Vagrant Mood, a slim volume of urbane table talk ranging from the decline of the detective story to Immanuel Kant's theory of beauty, from Edmund Burke's literary style to a profile of an eccentric 10th century English snob named Augustus Hare. Proof that the "Old Party's" writing hand has lost none of its cunning is the fact that he can make such unlikely subjects just as likeable reading as his personal memories of Novelists Henry James and H. G. Wells, which he tucks into the same book...
...contributions they vary infinitely-all that any man contributes is giving a direction to force. The architect does it on a larger scale than the bricklayer who only sees that a brick is laid level. I know no a priori reason why he should not have a greater reward. Kant did it on a larger scale than the architect . . . Some kind of despotism is at the bottom of the seeking for change. I don't care to boss my neighbors . . . even when, as frequently, I think their wishes more or less suicidal...