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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...produced a report on smelting and assaying which was a masterpiece of detail; he guided Sweden in its currency policy, dealt with the balance of trade and the liquor laws, ancestored all Scandinavian geologists, arrived at the nebular hypothesis to explain the formation of planets long before Kant and LaPlace, was an original chemist, sketched a flying machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swedenborgians | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

President Emeritus Eliot compiled recently a list of the ten greatest educators: Aristotle, Galen, Da Vinci, Milton, Shakespeare, Locke, Kant, Bacon, Newton, and Emerson. Of course, his list, like any other, will reap a whirlwind of comment and criticism. Where, for example, is Goethe, Homer, Beethoven, Tolstoy, perhaps, and Rousseau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE TEN GREATEST" | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...short weeks of vacation have broken the thread of students habits--if one had them. Upon the golf links at Pinehurst, upon the sands at Miami, on the toboggan at Lake Placid, or in the quiet comfort of the family fireside, the Muses whispered in faint and unreal tones; Kant's "Critique" somehow seemed impertinent logic. But now the holidays are over. The dirty stop of Cambridge streets recalls a reality not to be doubted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELCOME--BUT BEWARE | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...anniversary of its seven hundredth birthday. This month the University of Naples has been doing the same. St. Thomas Aquinas, a student there for six years, is its most illustrious graduate. On the six hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his death, which happened to be the two hundredth of Kant's, Cardinal Mercier delivered the oration in the Church of San Domenico Maggiore, where Aquinas used to lecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 5/27/1924 | See Source »

...attack of reason on faith, he should also have demanded, to be just, that Religion keep off the property of Science, by refraining from the distortion by faith of the latter's principles in its realm of facts. Let our faith and our reason be kept apart, as Kant recommended some two hundred years ago, for neither is to be trusted when it wanders from home. It matters not what belief tells us about how, or when, or where this, or that, or the other thing happened in Biblical times, but it does matter what we believe about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/3/1924 | See Source »

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