Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans prosperous simply because they stumbled upon a fabulous lode of natural resources? The book quotes the late Economist Wesley Mitchell, who pointed out that American Indians "lived in a poverty-stricken environment. For them, no coal existed, no petroleum, no metals beyond nuggets of pure copper . . . A precarious food supply, flimsy housing, mystical medicine and chronic warfare limited the increase in numbers." Says Dewhurst: "Technology, in fact, can be thought of as the primary resource; without it all other resources would be economically nonexistent . . . Technological progress during the past century, especially since 1900, appears to have been more rapid...
...Einstein's theory postulated. He won the Nobel Prize in 1921. Bertrand Russell wrote: "The theory of relativity is probably the greatest synthetic achievement of the human intellect up to the present time. It sums up the mathematical and physical labors of more than 2,000 years. Pure geometry, from Pythagoras to Riemann, the dynamics and astronomy of Galileo and Newton, the theory of electro-magnetism as it resulted from the researches of Faraday, Maxwell and their successors-all are absorbed, with the necessary modifications, in the theories of Einstein...
...When he was twelve, he got a copy of Euclid's Geometry, Thirty years later, Einstein recalled: "It made me realize that man is capable, through the force of thought alone, of achieving . . . stability and purity." At 13 he read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Still, it took him two attempts to pass the entrance exams to Zurich Polytechnicum...
...these is the stone age. If the stone age was at first simple, it was nonetheless irritating. Little boys stood on the bank of the Charles and threw rocks at the moving sculls. It was something of a game, with the sculler's sanity the stake. Simple in its pure form, even the stone age underwent some modernization...
...unable "to breathe life into what we ourselves believe," the failure is not merely one of propaganda, political warfare or communication-it lies in America's own philosophical tradition, in its unlimited faith in material progress and its excessive optimism about human nature. Faith, not so much in pure science, but in social doctrines that falsely lay claim to being scientific-Davenport aptly calls them metascience-led Western man to apply mere quantitative measurements to all things. Marxism, as Davenport analyzes it, is grounded in just such metascience, plus 18th-century philosophical absolutism, i.e., the belief that a universal...