Word: utilitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world; the Vagabond has suffered from the handicap of an innocent and benign exterior. Old gentlemen used to pat him on the head in public places, and kind relatives used to supply him with constant provender, the gentlemen with buffalo nickels, and the ladies with peppermints. A utilitarian even at his early age, the Vagabond would persist in harmonizing his actions with his appearance, to his immense material profit and moral advantage in times of stress...
...significant that citizens living in the practical environment of Cleveland have sought to combine utilitarian value with inherent beauty in their memorials. . . . They have made their very memorials to live and to serve as did the loved ones for whom they stand. In the institutions now operating as units of the medical centre are found such 'living memorials,' identified by a bronze tablet here, a modest name plate there. Following is a schedule of memorial gifts for your thoughtful consideration...
...board sought an outlet for his restless vigor in the conquest of the wilderness. The frontier vanished; industrialism offered a new channel for his boundless energies. The pioneer became the business man. Pragmatists like James and Dewey, mistaking a means for an end, furnished him a philosophy. The utilitarian process was complete...
...philosophy, the equally significant work of Brooks on Adams is neglected. One feels a lack of understanding in the author's treatment of Poe, and also a hint of the unpractical--despite his appreciation of genuine scientific achievement--in his dismissal of Upton Sinclair's "Industrial Republic" as too utilitarian. For transcendentalism alone as a living force is found wanting by the same canons with which Mr. Mumford condemned the humanism of the Renaissance--it failed to affect the great mass of the people. Even a utilitarian remedy for the most pressing evils might provide the eventual access...
...penetrating inquiries and was hailed even by Frenchmen, who dedicated their great Encyclopedia to him just as Englishmen founded the Royal Society (1660) in his name when he was long dead. His suggestions were carried out broadly by his secretary, Hobbes; in inductive psychology by Locke; in utilitarian economics by 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...