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Lewis edited a widely used textbook of histology and embryology and was a former editor of the American Naturalist...
...favorite ideas-materialism, naturalism, humanism, relativism. Then he dismisses each of them by saying that "chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." This verdict does not land Santayana in the camp of the simon-pure pessimists. Nature, he insists, does trace out repetitive patterns of order, and for Naturalist Santayana the life of mankind is a problem in horticulture...
...best thing about The Young May Moon is that Novelist Newby, like fellow English Novelists Henry Green and William Sansom, writes about his people with fraternal warmth and no condescension. Unlike those "proletarian" and naturalist novelists who are so shaken with mission that they make their workers or sharecroppers into faceless morons, Newby knows that a truck driver can be a man of sensitivity and a baker a man of imagination...
...Scottish Naturalist and Explorer Donald John Munro, R.N., C.M.G., tried to form a Loch Ness Monster Co. to investigate Nessie. Then in 1941, a pilot of Mussolini's air force solemnly announced that he had bombed the Loch Ness monster out of existence...
...Naturalist William Beebe, 72, who once broke his leg in Venezuela and sat quietly while a five-foot boa constrictor slithered across it, admitted that he was getting a little old for jungle expeditions and bathysphere trips to the ocean depths. Having bought a house overlooking a naturalist's paradise in Trinidad, he said he would now be able to study nature in comfort: "No more of that half-a-mile-down-in-the-sea ... I'd rather be warm...