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That same pleasure which the reader of Emerson so often experiences, seemed apparent in the audience at the Union last night when it turned for a time from the baffling specific to the brilliantly stated generality. Mr. Bertrand Russell set forth more clearly than it is usually heard the logically...
When one is precipitated, however, from that generality to the welter of the specific, to fundamentalism is one's own family, to mental astigmatism in the leaders of one's own country, to freedom of speech at a university, human fallibility is almost overwhelming; and all but the stoutest hearts...
In the fact that the majority are condemned to the specific lies, it would seem, the strongest possible argument for the widest dissemination of those generalities which approach truth from both sides. The impact may bring war, as it did. When it took place near, the altar on the east...
Long before the war, the name of Bertrand Russell was known to students of higher mathematics; his presentation of abstract conceptions, such as theories of matter received much deserved praise. And the gradual change of interest from the problems of abstract mathematics to the more specific, concrete problems of mankind...
Some months ago (TIME, June 25), newspapers reported in large headlines the 'discovery of a new vaccine for tuberculosis by Georges Dreyer of Oxford University. The distinctive feature of this vaccine was the claim that it could be made specific through its attack on certain ingredients contained within the...