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Died. Clarence Seward Darrow, 80, criminal lawyer, defender of underdogs, winner of lost causes; of heart disease; in Chicago. Agnostic, bitter opponent of capital punishment ("organized, legalized murder"), Darrow never prosecuted a case, never had a client executed. His great defenses: 1) Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, arrested (1894) on a...
Many wars ago there lived a man who took up the instinctive desire for life after death and made it part of his religious gospel. Through his teachings and circumstances this man, whose name was Jesus Christ, passed on to gentile time two ideas of eternal life, the Resurrection and...
Last week Dr. James Weneeslas Papez, professor of anatomy at Cornell University, had a heavy mail. He had published in Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry a paper entitled A Proposed Mechanism of Emotion, which many experts considered to be the most coherent and logical explanation of human emotion yet devised...
Said Edwin Grant Conklin, famed Princeton biologist and retiring A. A. A. S. president: "The ethics of science regards the search for truth as one of the highest duties of man; it regards noble human character as the finest product of evolution: it considers the service of all mankind as...
If anthropologists had as clear a picture of human evolution as they have of horse evolution (a neat series ascending from four-toed little eohippus), their lives would be less exciting but laymen would understand them better. Professor Dubois first ascribed Pithecanthroptis to the Pleistocene or Glacial Age, then shifted...