Word: heraclitus
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...Tsar generously, "but I do not think that we should charge her with Trotskyism. I must say, though, that for a Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...
...Author. Oswald Spengler chose Germany (Blankenburg im Harz) as his birthplace, history as his province. He studied mathematics, philosophy, art and history in Munich and Berlin, wrote his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, then subsided into the anonymity of a pedagog. When the first version of Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West) was finished, he could find no German publisher, brought it out in Vienna. By 1923 it had become a world affair, reached the U. S. in 1926. No longer hidden under a bushel of schoolboys' papers, Spengler's threatening light shines...
William Clissold to mention encounters with Dean Inge, Dr. Jung, George Bernard Shaw and many another real person whom a fairly eminent scientist could scarcely help meeting. (English reviewers have been choking fretfully over this feature.) The Mottoes. There are two mottoes for this book. One is quoted from Heraclitus: "πavra pεi -All things change (flow)." The other is inadvertently inserted by Author William Clissold-H. G. Wells: "This book, at any rate, is not going to be a home of rest for the tired reader...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "New Interpretation of the Stele Inscription in the Forum." Professor M. Warren.--"Plays on Words in Thucydides, Book I." Mr. H. P. Arnold.--"The Child at Play, in Heraclitus, Fragment 79." Professor C. P. Parker. Sever...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "New Interpretation of the Stele Inscription in the Forum." Professor M. Warren.--"Plays on Words in Thueydides, Book I." Mr. H. P. Arnold.--"The Child at Play, in Heraclitus, Fragment 79." Professor C. P. Parker. Sever...