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...DAVID PASCAL WRAY New York City
There are those who neither rebel nor assert egos but are consumed by a vision, like Buddha, Pascal, St. Joan, Mary Baker Eddy. There are the converts who see a sudden or a slow light for which they surrender their past, like St. Paul or Mary Magdalene or Cardinal Newman. There are those who are willing to defy the class or service to which they belong, like Savonarola or Franklin D. Roosevelt or Billy Mitchell, and those who fulfill their individuality in the sometimes more difficult discipline of submission...
...scientists in every important century. Other reviews are grouped into two sections dealing with subjects in a specific historical setting. One treats of Greek education in antiquity, early Chinese civilization, and other pre-Newtonian subjects. The other slips into a discussion of specifically modern crises and attitudes in science; Pascal and Maxwell give way to Bohm, Schrodinger, and Charles Darwin A long and careful piece on Einstein near the end of the first volume signals the shift from traditional to contemporary concerns. At the close of the second is a melange of little treatises on comets, albatross and so forth...
...follows these with a group of intriguing reviews on Pascal, Mill, Wittgenstein, and others of more sensibility than science. The discussion of The Age of Analysis picks up Morton White's rewarding distinction between the "hedgehogs" and "foxes" of twentieth-century philosophy (taken from the Greek poet Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing...
...call came-and what the army discovered about Jean is currently the talk of France. The mind of the peasant boy, it turned out upon testing, is comparable to that of Pascal or Leonardo da Vinci...