Word: evolutionism
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But the papers composed and written by Spinoza came to be read all over the Western world. When he died in 1677, the man who wrote that "our greatest joy exists in our love of God, and . . . every love, of necessity, results from the acknowledgment of God" had also helped...
"[An] absence of basic information is particularly noticeable in the fields of literature and history. Instead of being concentrated, channeled, continually kept aware of that 'spiritual duration' which is manifest in the evolution of thought, the attention roams distractedly and fails to grasp the unity of culture: only...
Technically-as the Soc. Rel. man himself well knew-a matriarchy is "a state or stage in social evolution in which descent is traced in the mother's line," or, more generally, "a society in which women exercise the main political power." In applying the term to Harvard, however, he...
Laniel first took up Dienbienphu: "The defeat must be explained by a sudden change in Viet Minh war methods, brought about with Chinese aid . . . The battle of Dienbienphu marks a turning point in the evolution of Viet Minh military strength. Our garrison had been caught by surprise." Snapped a Socialist...
When the war was over, the Society went back to more scholarly pursuits. In 1948, members were involved with problems of uniqueness and interpolation in mathematics, and the magnetic moments of nucleii in physics. A biologist was working on slime molds, an historian on a History of Bukhara translated from...