Word: leibnitz
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...half-course in advanced logic. Assistant Professor G. P. Adams, of the University of California will also conduct the following courses during the second half-year: Philosophy 3 on the "Philosophy of Nature, with Especial Reference to Man's Place in Nature," Philosophy 14a, on "Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibnitz," and Philosophy 19a, "History of Ethics--The Early English Moralists...
...Army from its Organization Sept. 29, 1789 to Sept. 29th, 1889," by F. B. Heitman; Achille Luchaire's "Les Communes Francaises a Pepoque des Capetiens directs; Mendelyeef's "Grundlagen der Chemie"; A facsimile of the earliest edition of Columbus's letter announcing the discovery of the New World; "Leibnitz's New Essays Concerning the Human Under standing," John Dewey; D. McK. Kerly's "Historical Sketch of the Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery," being the Yorke prize essay of Cambridge University in 1889; Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason;" A. C. Merriam's "Telegraphing Among the Ancients...
...inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin of evil. Replied the president, with a strong Doric accent: - "Well, ye have asked me a vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess it was too much for them. Kant tried it and made a mess of it, and to tell you the truth, gentlemen, (chewing his thumb-knuckle very vigorously) I canna make much of it myself." - University Herald...
...following subject for an essay was recently set for the higher classes in a girl's High School in the Friederichstrauss, Berlin: "To prove from the ideas of Plato. the atoms of Democrites, the substance of Spinosa, the monads of Leibnitz, and from the subjunctive forms of presentation of Kant, that philosophy has never neglected to compare the calculable operations of her hypothesis with the operations that fall under her observation.' Vassar and other "sweet girl graduates," remarks an exchange, may now hide their diminished heads...
...open gate of life-while, I say, such a system as this continues and flourishes, which most practical men have long scorned with an immeasurable contempt, do not let us consider that we have advanced a single step in reforming education, to reform which, in the words of Leibnitz, is to reform society and to reform mankind...