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Reiser's book is lucid, ambitious, profound. It was inspired by science's discovery of more things in heaven & earth than were dreamt of in former philosophies. "The time is ripe for a new philosophy," says Philosopher Reiser, and he hopes its main characteristics will be 1) a...
These changes are the result of a slow evolution over a period of years. John L. Donnell '40, the chairman of last year's Album Committee, crystallized the program, and Brooks finally constructed the petition which the Student Council passed.
One of them, studying lightning flashes by reclining on a Los Angeles curbstone in a pouring rain, was rushed to headquarters by suspicious police. Famed paleontologists like Barnum Brown of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and Chester Stock of California Institute of Technology were called in for...
Born among the Harz Mountains in 1880, Oswald Spengler loved peasants, lonely landscapes, flowers. He revered Goethe, adapted his philosophy of destiny-inspired evolution to mankind's history. Through Halle, Munich, Berlin he pursued a Ph.D. in mathematics and philosophy. In later years Spengler's contempt for Communism...
Critic Edmund Wilson (Axel's Castle) became interested in the historical evolution of socialism some years ago, has had the present book in mind for six years. To the Finland Station is a study of the slow development of socialist ideas. His purpose is to explore the origins of...