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Countless speakers from countless pulpits have made a platitude of the statement that the man who has had the greatest influence over the lives of Western peoples has been neigther emperor nov statesman, author or scientist, but an humble carpenter from Galilee. The story of the development of the institution founded by Christ is a vital one to students of philosophy, literature, politics and art, for all of them bear to some extent the impress of the power it has wielded over the mind of man for the past nineteen centuries. For that reason the lecture to be given...
...scientist and so of course am not in a position to question Dr. Janet Clark's findings, but I take issue with Dr. Clark's conclusions that "the amount null of the noonday sun's ultraviolet light; TIME, Sept. 10] is obviously too small to be of any great value...
Spengler is historian, mathematician, esthete, economist, political scientist, philosopher. With a curious and powerful alternation of Teutonic intellectual despotism and entranced mysticism, he analyzes history by huge analogies. Civilizations he sees as emerging & disappearing in cycles, each one, like a flower, experiencing birth, growth, decay, death. Our own Western civilization he declares to be in the phase of decay, characterized by material expansion, effete spirituality. Collapse is imminent in perhaps 300 years. But by that time another human group will be unwittingly generating a new civilization to flourish and sink in its own long turn. Herein lies the refutation...
Professor Leonide Kulik, Russian scientist who risked his life to look a little longer on a stone, last week "was rescued by the relief expedition sent into the tundra wilderness of Siberia to seek him. No marvel of jasper or onyx, this; it is a large rock with a fused crust, composed of iron and silicates. It is the largest meteorite ever found on the earth, and Prof. Kulik has been looking at it ever since last summer...
...Enriched Scientist. Georges Claude of France was the darling of the scientists and businessmen at the coal conference. His discoveries and applications of pure science have made him a rich man. Vast industries depend upon his inventions. He discovered how to dissolve acetylene in acetone; $20,000,000 worth of dissolved acetylene is sold over the world each year. He invented a way of liquefying air; the Air Reduction Co. has 30 plants using his process, is worth $25,000,000. He created neon lamps; cities and airports now glow redly, to his profit. He put waste coke oven gases...