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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tory." If you are not a materialist, you must be an idealist. "Ours is a scientific world, a literate world, saturated with -I will not say, the precise ideas of the three materialists-but surely with their deeper spirit, their faith in matter, their love of system, their abstract scientism, and their one-sided interpretation of Nature." How directly their theoretical ideas have found current practical expression, Author Barzun highlights by bracketing two quotations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Struggle of Ideas | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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