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...escape him: he shunned Bronson Alcott's Brook Farm, not from a lack of interest, but because the communal ideal was repugnant Emerson was an individualist. Intellectually the quiet minister of Concord was a swashbuckler whose doctrine his neighbors feared, but "the tone was so well-bred withal that much dangerous doctrine was overlooked for the manner of the presentation." Such was the man who swayed rustic and school-girl, scrub-woman and Thomas Carlyle: now he rests ignored by a busy world in the quiet grave at Concord...
...invention Man advances further outside the bounds of Nature. To maintain his unnatural position he soon finds it necessary to band together into societies; within these societies men divide into the leaders and the led. Invention, technics become more and more complex: "The pace of discovery grows fantastic, and withal . . . human labor is not saved thereby." Knowledge to design and manage the machines becomes the leaders' technical monopoly. But as the led must always work still harder, they begin to strike, revolt. Mutiny even among the leaders spreads against the machine. In this mutiny technics will decay, Western civilization...
...first women to take an Oxford degree (first-class honors in Medieval Literature), she was considered one of the most brilliant scholars of her year. Now a noted detective-story author & editor (The Omnibus of Crime), her favorite recreation is reading other people's detective stories. Withal, she is married (to Capt. Atherton Fleming), has shingled hair, a merry countenance...
Those which have come true include: 1) limited enrolment; 2) the four-course system by which upper-class students choose two major courses and two minor, and must stand high in these; 3) increase in size and beauty of the physical plant and strengthening of the faculty. But, withal, President Hibben has been most notable for his general and tireless insistence on the intellectual side of the University...
...Clarke, were woven romance and daring. But much written about him was fiction. He was not a desperado, not a bandit, stage-coach robber, or brigand. ... He was a good citizen, a necessarily rough character in the days when it was part of the life of the west, but withal not a bad man. . . . He was born in England, baptized and confirmed in the Church of England...