Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of accidents things and developments that just happened. But the priest doesn't find this solution satisfactory, it does not tie up with his belief in a personal God and a great purpose behind life. Finally the scientist is led on to define his won theory of vital forces, which he conceives as whirlpools of energy. Our bodies, our bones and skin, are but the debris thrown out by this eddy, and we are but an accident of energy...
...much is still left to the reader's own reasoning powers, but he does have a new conception of vital power. For the first time the new scientific attitude toward God and religion is defined. Whether we agree with it or not, it stimulates us to think out for ourselves our own theories and ideas...
...Making a vital distinction between "mass" and "class," he defines "mass-mind" as the commonplace mind, no matter in what class it is found. The massman is barbarian, only concerned with his own wellbeing, content to plunder civilization, not labor intelligently to continue it. By his definition of "barbarian" Ortega y Gasset covers a multitude of public "leaders": "If anyone in a discussion with us is not concerned with adjusting himself to truth, if he has no wish to find the truth, he is intellectually a barbarian. That, in fact, is the position of the massman when he speaks, lectures...
...federal sub-commissioner under Federal Commissioner Dr. Bracht. Since the people of Prussia and even the German people have had no chance to examine or approve this ultra-arbitrary change, Paul von Hindenburg took his place last week in a class with Josef Stalin and Benito Mussolini. Vital fact: The 84-year-old President and his angelic Chancellor are well known to be guided in their dictatorial steps by sly but patriotic Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher, tireless in his intrigues to restore the goose-step unity and military might of Imperial Germany...
Clearly Dictator Stalin, on reaching Moscow, had studied Russia's vital statistics, deciding at a glance that the Soviet Union faces a food shortage this winter which will bring back memories of her dread Famine Year, 1921. Correspondents, soon to feel the pinch, filled their despatches last week with stomach-crisis facts...