Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bentham. Baruch Spinoza (1632-77). No sooner had Bacon fathered a school of objective scientists in England than Descartes of France, a mathematician, started a subjective school whose first point was: "I think, therefore I am." This metaphysical statement caused much activity later on in Germany. It did not trap Spinoza, brilliant young Jew of Amsterdam, who, after being excommunicated by his synagogue, filled his solitude with polishing lenses and writing four bocks to unify God and the processes of nature. Spinoza pitched on another proposition of Descartes-that underlying all matter is one substance, while
...will, detest any being (or fiend, as Subscriber Marlborough put the German, Schwarz) who would, for the sake of anything, make life miserable for any dumb beast or animal. When I read the article on "Horses" [TIME, May 31, GERMANY] where the German moving picture producer, Schwarz, sprung a trap under two horses to make them tumble down the cliff onto the rocks below for the sake of making moving pictures of their agony, I felt as one would if someone would suddenly tell you that a certain man had tortured every baby in the world to his death...
...years the Black God had padded on cat feet over 350 square miles of Western Garhwal; in that time he had killed 125 humans, snatching them in village streets, at the very doors of houses. Sixteen Indian shimkaris, paid by the government, had shot at him and missed; gun traps, arsenic, cyanide and prayer had not hurt him. Twice he was caught?once in a trap, once in a cave. He escaped. The hills were poisoned with strychnine. He lived. It was then that the natives declared that God alone could kill the killer, for though in form...
...Adroitly fitted with a device by which the entire liquor cargo can be ejected into the sea through an under water trap door in the stern, if a dry enforcement cutter is sighted...
...life I have heard of only one man to whom the expression "a fiend in human form" seemed justly applicable and not melodramatic. That man is the German motion picture director. Schultz** whom you describe in TIME, May 31, p. 14. The man who would spring a trap under two horses, send them crunching off a cliff to their death, and finally have motion pictures taken of their agony, is not a man?he is in truth a fiend. I have never written a letter to a magazine before, but I could not sleep last night, thinking of Schultz...