Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...panel on "Science, Materialism and the Human Spirit." Gentle Jacques Maritain, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, was not confused about his convictions on the subject. Twentieth Century Man, he said, is becoming "unable to believe anything but facts & figures and sense-data." Maritain found the basis for a moral order in a process of reason about the essences of God, man and things. He blamed not science itself for the 20th Century's moral crisis, but two factors bearing on the use to which men put science: 1) peoples' "mythmaking suggestibility," their "natural lust" for facile explanations...
...famous continent from which modern civilization and culture have spread throughout the world. But at the critical moment, something happened-the great Khan died . . . The Mongol armies and their leaders trooped back on their ponies across the 7,000 miles which separated them from their capital, in order to choose a successor. They never returned-till...
Rugged Clinton Golden, a former locomotive fireman, a leader of the Steelworkers' Union and veteran of half a dozen Government posts dealing with labor elaborated: "The individual sought refuge in organizations [leagues, associations, societies, lobbies, bureaus, granges, cooperatives, parties] in order to protect his own integrity and to win a place in [his] fluctuating environment. . . The organization appeared ... an instrumentality for good. But after a time, the organization took on a life of its own, with ethics...
This added up to quite an order for America. No one claimed that all the tasks could be earned out. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the convocation was that it heard no boosters of the 20th Century's high towers and great deeds. Yet a quiet optimism persisted. British Scientist Sir Henry Tizard, quoting the remark a school friend once made to Samuel Johnson, summed up the spirit of the conference: "I too have tried to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness kept breaking...
...Europe's future, Hoffman saw a bold and hopeful prospect: "In order to build a united Europe, you first have to build Europeans. The European organizations that have been formed and that are at work now are building Europeans. For the first time in history, a body of men are beginning to think and plan and build together as Europeans and not as nationals of separate states. They are developing more and more the habit of working together, of looking at their problems as common European problems. They are getting in the habit of having their economic plans criticized...