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...toward the end of the 19th Century it was discovered that Swedenborg had been ahead of his time in almost every field of science. He invented an ear-trumpet and mercury air pump, sketched a submarine, airplane, machine gun, fire extinguisher, steam engine. He propounded the nebular hypothesis before Kant and LaPlace, anticipated all Scandinavian geologists in his studies of paleontology, was first to explain the phenomenon of phosphorescence, beat modern physicists by 150 years with his molecular magnetic theory and modern physiologists with his discoveries concerning the nature and activity of the brain, spinal cord and ductless glands...
They had arrived at 3.55 o'clock to prepare for an intellectual seating on world history. They had even adjusted themselves to the room, made dreary by Plato, Kant, and the architect. But at nine o'clock they received the terse order from the proctor that they must find Emerson H on the second floor before they could take their examination. The desperate band rushed forth only to find that Emerson H, had been carelessly misplaced for the morning...
There can be no doubt that the authors are profound classical scholars, for on the very first page one finds the inspiring quotation "Omnibus ad ques hae litterae pervenerint Saintem." That they are cultured they prove by the quotations from Thomas Arnold, Bacon, Kant, and Moutaigue. A cultured shudder gently ripples down their sensitive spines as they forsee the end of the liberal arts tradition in the old school. We can almost see a wistful fear dropping upon the already damp paper as they plaintively ask, "Have you considered what would be thought by the other great teachers...
...Idealism of Kant," Professor Hocking, New Lecture Hall...
...defense of humanism. This portion of his article will provide abundant material for what in simpler circles than those of Harvard undergraduates are called "bull sessions." "For after all," he writes, "facts, especially scientific facts, are the most untruthful things there are." That is going a bit further than Kant, though like Kant, Mr. Chase does find truths at last in moral judgments. Lord Bacon went wrong because, though he had a scientific education, he had no moral education. It is difficult here to avoid making a debater's point, and suggesting to Mr. Chase that Alcibiades had a very...