Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Free Thinkers failed to prove the validity of their case in court. Their efforts, however, give evidence that no matter how far men may get from the literal interpretation of Genesis, they must go much farther before they can cast off the bugaboos of bigotry and intolerance. An orthodox Free Thinker sounds like a paradox, but apparently he is a fact...
...Peirce, an American thinker, first formulated pragmatism as the "doctrine that the meaning of any conception lies only in its practical consequences". This view was adopted and widely expanded by William James in 1878 in his book, "The Will to Believe", and in "Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results...
...Thinker. Fertile, vigorous, imaginative of mind, he disciplined himself to follow only inductive logic-from observation and experiment to hypothesis. He could not rest until he had tried experiments which seemed absurd even to himself. Slow in argument, a poor expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...
...universe" for very sympathetic Author Bradford. The significance and explanation are: 1) that Darwin, saintliest of men, though he may have been the critical instrument and though he saw whither his brave thought tended, was yet no more responsible personally for the catastrophe than was many another honest thinker just before him-the German metaphysicians, Herbert Spencer, Poet Goethe, Poet Emerson; 2) that those for whom God is a necessity, as He was not for Darwin, will recreate...
...GOOD LIFE- Bertrand Russell-Boni, Liveright ($2.50). This is a book for which a thoughtful public's appetite has been sharply whetted. When Mr. Russell, Britain's celebrated philosopher and mathematician, entered the field of psychology, it became apparent that he is no idle perfectionist but a thinker who refuses to shirk the humanistic implications of his theories. "What will he have to say about education?" was the question, underscored by the arrival of the Russells' two children...