Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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CRIME AND DESTINY-Johannes Lange -Paper Books (50?). Which is more important, heredity or environment? Johannes Lange is a German and therefore methodical. He is a criminologist and therefore curious about human behavior. Lange had heard many an argument about heredity v. environment, knew that Sir Francis Gallon in 1876 had tried to show heredity prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom...
...taxes . . . defeats the very purpose of these schemes. . . . Prosperity cannot be restored by raids on the public treasury. . . . Some of these schemes are ill-considered; some represent the desire of individuals to show they are more generous than the administration. . . . They are playing politics at the expense of human misery. The American people will not be misled by such tactics...
...introduced. Another point raised against the White House calculation was that in most of the "relief" bills the U. S. was giving away nothing but simply advancing programs and policies theoretically approved by the President himself. Hotly declared New York's Senator Copeland: "If we're playing politics with human misery, he's playing politics with tax figures...
Said he: "The task of science is to supply as many legitimate human wants as possible with one foot-pound of energy∙... to extract the maximum of satisfaction to the race of our present reserves of energy." When coal and oil are gone, Science will turn to sunlight as man's source of energy. Reassuring to the insurance presidents was it to hear Caltech's Millikan, Nobel Prizeman of 1923, student of the Cosmic Ray and of subatomic energy (both of which he rules out as practical energy sources for mankind) declare: "Only the economic reason that...
ASCERTAINED AND MEASURES PLANNED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEM AND WITH THE EQUALLY IMPORTANT FACTS OF HUMAN NATURE. Chairman of the planning committee, Aldo Leopold of Madison, Wis., chief of the American Game Survey, submitted the new program. The committee had found that American farmers can do more toward increasing game than any other agency by making game a secondary farm crop. Six years of compensating game-wise farmers in Texas, for example, have increased good shooting preserves to 2,500,000 acres. They recommended that the farmer be protected from lawless hunters, be amply rewarded for his work.* Quail, pheasants...