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First in Honor Mods a year and two thirds, or five terms, of epic, drama, and oratory. Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles Aoschylus, Homer, Lucretius, Demosthenes and Cicero. Remember that he is quite capable of getting through the thousand odd lines of the "Bacchae" in one long night when he first appears in Oxford. Then on this foundation Greats--two years and a third, or seven terms of history and philosophy. Thucydides, Herodotus, Livy, and Tacitus, and most of all Plato's "Republic" and Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics." This is supplemented by Bury and Meyer in Greek history and by Descartes, Hume...
...Lucretius--Poet and Epicurean malgre lui," Prof. Rand, Sever...
...Lucretius-Poet and Epicurean Malgro lui," Professor E. K. Rand, Sever...
This syllabus of culture, or notebook of Durant, lists: ten Greatest Thinkers (Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin) ; ten Greatest Poets (Homer, Author of the Psalms, Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Lipo, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman); 100 Best Books for an education (approximate cost, $300; time required for reading: four years at seven hours per week, ten hours per volume). Syllabuster Durant reviews his favorite modern philosophers (Spengler, Keyserling, Bertrand Russell), his favorite modern literary lights (Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, John Cowper Powys), fills up the rest of his 426 pages with comments on his trips...
There is no more fascinating subject than modern physics. Science, always, since the days of Democritus and Lucretius, a field fertile to the romantic imagination, is more rational in its severity and yet more romantic in its doctrine and possibility than ever before. Philosophy, which Professor Whitehead has called the architectural plan, has been hard pressed during the last century. The scientists seem to be building and destroying before the architect has drawn a line, instead of as previously, the architects drawing and destroying plans before the scientist has lifted an unknown into the position of a conscious reality...