Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lineal descendant of Thrasymachus, of Philo in Hume's "Dialogues," and of Bertrand Russell in his most willfully tough-minded moods, Professor Becker works within the limitations of the naturalistic philosophy. This fact has led him into a fundamental error--or at least a fundamental omission. "Obviously the disciples of the Newtonian philosophy had not ceased to worship. . . having denatured God, they deified nature." "The eighteenth century Philosophers, like the medieval scholastics, held fast to a revealed body of knowledge. . ." "The ideas (Dderot's) are essentially Christian .!): for the worship of God, Diderot has substituted respect for posterity...
...over Europe, Australia, the U. S., trace the progress of his love-affair with Baroness von Richthofen, first another man's wife, then Lawrence's, the tides of his friendships and quarrels, equally didactic and wholehearted. To Lady Ottoline Morrell he wrote: "Today we have a letter from Bertie [Bertrand Russell] : very miserable. He doesn't know why he lives at all: mere obstinacy and pride, he says, keep him alive." Middleton Murry shows curious humility in allowing some of the letters Lawrence wrote him to be published. Lawrence to Murry: "You remember saying, T love you, Lorenzo...
...GRACE OF GOD-J. W. N. Sullivan-Knopf. Few U. S. writers on science approach the authority and lucid readableness of England's Bertrand Russell and John William Navin Sullivan. Laymen curious about what science is up to can turn with reasonable hopefulness to Russell's The A B C of Atoms, Sullivan's Three Men Discuss Relativity. In this brief (220-page), disarming autobiography, Journalist Sullivan, calling himself Julian Shaughnessy, explains about himself with the same simple sincerity he uses to explain Bach or Bohr. Realistic, humble, Sullivan calls popular works on science...
...home of the late Sir Charles Hastings, B. M. A. founder, speakers in the main refrained from historical palaver. Professor Julian Sorell Huxley told about the "Biology of Human Nature.'' The Prince of Wales attended the Centenary Dinner in Albert Hall, sat close to his personal physician Bertrand Dawson Lord Dawson of Penn, incoming B. M. A. president...
...Senator Dickinson presented to the convention its permanent chairman, Representative Bertrand Hollis Snell, Potsdam, N. Y. cheesemaker. Chairman Snell, plump and pink, was escorted to the platform by a delegation of ladies headed by Mrs. Alvin Hert, vice-chairwoman of the National Committee. From the first bang of his gavel, for which was later substituted a bungstarter, it was apparent that stout Mr. Snell had the convention in his round red fist...