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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ability to conquer nature. But he corrected Aristotle's method of examining nature, instituting a "new organon" of inductive logic-accumulating facts, theorizing later. He destroyed a great number of scholastic "Idols" by his 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...
...Crane is, of course, only joking. She will not "do" anything. Didn't she let Mr. Crane give Nathalia a typewriter for Christmas? Didn't she keep rushing to the encyclopedia at Nathalia's command to look up African flora and fauna for this prose opus? Mrs. Crane knows quite well she can "do" nothing about it if Nathalia breaks out again in the next six years. She is perfectly aware that in the girl flows blood, not only from John and Priscilla Alden, but from "the grand old Spanish family, Abarbanel, who counted among their number...
...American Who's Who gives Dame Melba's age as 60; the New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 65; while many press despatches insisted she "is said to be 76." Her own estimate...
...named editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica...
...succeed the late Hugh Chisholm (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924, MILESTONES) as editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica, that compendium's directors last week-largely at the instance of Americans in their number-appointed James Louis Garvin, the man designated by the late Lord Northcliffe as "greatest living journalist." Since 1908, Journalist Garvin had edited the London Observer (Sunday), being retained by the present owner (Viscount Astor) after the death of Lord Northcliffe, the founder...