Word: philosophere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To Americans, philosophy-conscious, Keyserling is no new name. Count Hermann von Keyserling's Travel Diary of a Philosopher is considered readable by-many. Hermann's brother Edouard wrote, among other things, Tides, a novel, now translated into English. Will Edouard's novel be as popular as Hermann's philosophy...
TOMORROW NEVER COMES-Robert L. Duffus-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50) In one of those pleasant South American republics where blood is hot and daggers sharp, Latin temperament turns law clerk into general, army-sergeant into dictator, dictator into corpse. Rafael, the law April 29, 1929 clerk, happened to be "nephew" to...
RABELAIS-Anatole France-Holt ($5). THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS, AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND His SON PANTA-GRUEL-trans, from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. In one volume.-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). On the banks of the Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling...
The Parent Church charged that Mrs. Eddy as an author had plagiarized from Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, the Rev. Hugh Blair, Swiss Philosopher Henri Frederic Amiel. Sample parallels were:
Beautiful is the "Prayer of Maimonides," 12th Century Jewish physician-philosopher-teacher: "0 God, Thou hast formed the body of man with infinite goodness; thou hast united in him innumerable forces incessantly at work like so many instruments, so as to preserve in its entirety this beautiful house containing his...