Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inflection is of small importance to the Grand Manner, which is a perfection of spirit underlying all a man's acts, private and public. Shy to a painful degree, Mr. Mellon is nevertheless noted for his courage. His integrity, of course, is beyond question. Memorable illustrations of these two qualities were the swift ejection from the Treasury in 1922 of Elmer Dover, Ohio Gangster, and Secretary MelIon's long stand-up fights on the Internal Revenue Bureau with hard-hitting Senator Couzens of Michigan...
...theories crystallized into lectures. His distinguished friends urged him to publish, his scientific spirit urged him to accumulate more data. In 1628 a slim volume of 72 pages with two plates of diagrams came out under his name-72 pages of clear, logical, dignified exposition in which the whole existing theory of the blood was demolished. Homer, Aristotle, Plato, every village barber who had ever breathed a vein had known that the blood moved but until the hawkeyed Harvey, no one knew...
...been said, and so often and so insistently that it has become platitudinous, that the present age is an age of questions. As in all platitudes there is at least a foundation of truth in this remark. The scientific spirit which has pervaded the western world for the last century and more with its tireless exploration of the unknown has become the basic element in modern intellectual life...
Along with this spirit of questioning has come moreover the tendency to elevate purely scientific standards in comparison with which every phenomenon of life must stand or fall. And out of this has grown what seems to be one of the greatest controversies of contemporary life, that between, science and religion. It is, indeed, whether subconsciously or not, from this controversy that the books by Mr. Spaulding and Dr. Brown--two among many--have come, each representing a different attitude. Mr. Spaulding, a professor of Philosophy at Princeton, has attacked the subject of "What Am I"? and "What Shall...
...books, certainly, Dr. Brown's does little to satisfy the questioning spirit which above all must be met with its own weapons. Whether Mr. Spaulding has succeeded in doing this is an open question, but at least he has descended from the pulpit and entered into the midst of the congregation...