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The cause: The Nazis have simply carried to its logical limits an idea that is shared in some degree throughout Western civilization-the fatalistic idea that evolution and progress are the result of the survival of the fittest in a struggle to the death for life. World War II is...
Darwin's discovery was "evolution by natural selection from accidental variations." The dynamite, says Author Barzun, was in the phrase "from accidental variations." Reason: it denied the role of God in the universe, ruled out a purpose in existence, made men mere puppets of mechanical forces. Author Barzun confesses...
> On the Rights of the Individual: The power of the State "does not imply a power so extensive over the members of the community that in virtue of it the public authority can interfere with the evolution of that individual . . . decide on the beginning or the ending of human life...
Indicating that Harvard is always in a period of evolution, Archibald MacLeish in his article "The Next Harvard" in the current "Atlantic" presents and comments upon the present changes and future trends in the life of the University.
>On Bergson's Creative Evolution-"I think he is churning the void to make cheese-but I find him full of stimulus."