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...market. If he has something attractive to sell, and also has the knack of putting himself forward, of advertising himself, he san get a great deal. If he has merely merit, but cannot make people want him, he gets very little. And the good scholar, the cogent thinker, is often a very poor advertiser...
...Norman Angell, prominent socialist thinker, who was to have spoken yesterday at the Liberal Club, has postponed his talk till this afternoon, it was announced by the Liberal Club last night...
...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...
...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...