Word: metaphysician
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...Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut shortly after the Revolution. The other two colleges will be named Calhoun and Edwards in honor of John C. Calhoun, Yale 1804, and Jonathan Edwards, Yale 1720, respectively. Calhoun was the famous statesman of Civil War days, while Edwards was a theologian and metaphysician of note...
Lytton Strachey, who started a new school of biography, is still headmaster of it. Learned dilettante of history, he is no ghoulish exhumer of dead facts but a mildly malicious wizard who summons very lifelike ghosts. Says he: "The virtues of a metaphysician are the vices of a historian. A generalized, colorless, unimaginative view of things is admirable when one is considering the law of causality, but one needs something else if one has to describe Queen Elizabeth." That Something Else, as every Stracheyite knows, Strachey...
This was probably the greatest work of Physicist Faraday. Greatest contribution of Metaphysician Faraday was his concept that all physical phenomena are interrelated. Of this, he wrote in his diary...
...Gurdjieffites look for leadership to Alfred Richard Orage, onetime editor of the London New Age. In England they looked to Metaphysician Peter Ouspensky (Tertium Organum] until he quarreled with Gurdjieff. Manhattan Gurdjieffites include: Architect Hugh Ferriss, Editor Herbert Croly (New Republic), Socialite Mrs. Meredith Hare, Critic Gorham B. Munson, Musician Jeffrey Mark, Farmer Schuyler Jackson (TIME, Dec. 23), Authors Muriel Draper, Isa Glenn, Bayard Schindel, Jean Toomer...
...fate of Giordano Bruno, Dominican pantheist, smiter of scholastic Aristotelianism, philosophical ancestor, in some regards, of Spinoza, is known "to every schoolboy," at least in the Macaulay School. The blind self-slain Chancellor, the great Dominican heretic, Copernican, metaphysician, the supreme schoolman, are strange comrades, vivid to the imagination. Two of them are instinct with the Virgilian tenderness, in that city of Virgil, of "mentem mortalia tangunt." --New York Times...