Word: evolutionism
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Throughout 1940, Business still looked on Jesse Jones as its man. Yet he was tolerated by the New Deal as a candidate for two of its most sacred jobs: 1) integrating the U. S. with Latin America; 2) being President in 1944. If businessmen were unlucky to have the avowed...
Declining the Vichy Government's proffered exemption from its rule that all Jews must surrender State positions, tiny, 81-year-old Philosopher Henri Bergson, member of the French Academy, Nobel Prizeman, author of the theory of creative evolution, resigned from the faculty of the College de France, where he...
Aristotelian logic, Reiser says, has dominated Western thought for 2,000 years, confuses science and society by its omnipresent lingering. This logic is two-valued: a thing is either true or not true. Non-Aristotelian logic (which Bertrand Russell rejects) is many-valued, fills the chasm between true and not...
The theory of emergent evolution holds that space, time, matter, life are not independent of each other but form an organic whole. Reiser's basic space-time-matter trinity is about as mystical a concept as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. He finds it religiously inspiring, scientifically sound...
This space-time-matter organism is forever evolving. Mankind is the whole organism's "developing nervous system," and is due for greater changes still. Reiser insists that men must not leave their evolution merely up to cosmic rays as in the past, but must take their fate in their...