Word: ribot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...union" of political parties has been unable to withstand the strain of three years of hostilities, for the conflict of political groups is raging as bitterly as before the war, and personal prejudice against ministers, regardless of their qualifications, has more than once determined their fall. Following Briand and Ribot, Professor Painleve has become a victim of the politicians' spite...
...short despatch from Paris announces the retirement from the French cabinet of Monsieur Ribot, after repeated attacks on his policy by the Socialists. It is not without genuine regret that Americans read of his resignation, as throughout the war he has shown consummate ability and statesmanlike moderation in all his public acts, whether as finance minister, foreign secretary, or Premier. The grand old man of France, as his friends are wont to call him, has given much to his country in return for scant gratitude. For over a quarter of a century he has been active in French politics...
...that time Lachelier was awakening an ardor for metaphysical enquiry, while Taine and Ribot promoted experimental psychology. The followers of the former aimed to draw all the philosophical views from science that it would yield and still let philosophy retain its relative anatomy; the latter class intended merely to apply scientific treatment to philosophy, and so make philosophy one of the positive sciences. The former class comprises rationalists, contingentists and intuitionists, the latter was composed of men who treated the different parts of philosophy scientifically and of savants...