Word: evolutionism
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Koestler's thesis: Nowhere in all his battles and jails had he seen any man dying solely for "the democratic way." This war "turns out to be a more complicated affair than it looked at the beginning. . . ." Now, he writes, "the character of this war reveals itself as what...
Furthermore, I have been discussing the development of American society, not the structure of other nations. After the war we shall have to learn how to keep the peace by cooperation with other great countries which have very different cultural patterns and different histories from our own. But we shall...
"At the Atlantic meeting we had in mind primarily restoration of the sovereignty, self-government and national life of states and nations of Europe now under the Nazi yoke.... That is quite a separate problem from the progressive evolution of self-governing institutions in the regions . . . which owe allegiance to...
In the Grillon, Mexico City's ultra-posh nightclub, 300 poets and writers of every political stripe gathered to meet Manuel Avila Camacho over absinthe cocktails, lobster a la Newburg and a succulent melee of chicken, turkey and duck washed down with rare wines. Mexico's querulous intellectuals...
Science, Huxley points out, began with the simpler phenomena; its first triumphs were in mechanics and simple! physics; chemistry took another century. "The central fact of biology, evolution was not established until modern science had been in existence for over two hundred years. ... In the same way the science of...