Word: thinker
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...first and least violent stage of the Russian socialistic movement, which, of all political events of the nineteenth century is most closely connected with the French Revolution of 1848, Professor Milyoukov explained the theories and influence of three great leaders of that period--Herzen, the powerful writer and deep thinker, his impulsive friend Bakoonin, and the novelist Tourguenev. Herzen, an aristocrat by birth, but later a "repentant nobleman," ashamed of his own high position, maintained the attitude of the early nihilists. He sympathized with those independents who could not take for their own the worn out moralities, laws, customs...
Professor B. P. Bowne, professor of philosophy at Boston University, will deliver an address on "A Report from the Philosophical Field," in the Fogg Lecture Room, Friday evening, December 16, at 8.c0 o'clock. Professor Bowne is well-known as a strong and prominent thinker in the philosophical world, and is the author of a number of works on philosophy, the more important of which are: "An Introduction to Psychology," "Ethics," and "Metaphysics, A Study in First Principles...
Josiah Royce contributes a most thoughtful estimate of John Fiske, as a thinker, tracing his mental growth from his earliest youth. This is followed by "A Sketch of John Fiske's Life," by William Roscoe Thayer...
There are also many qualities that the short story does not demand. To write one does not require a sustained imagination, nor broadness and sanity in point of view. We do not require that the short story writer should have a philosophy of life or be a particularly deep thinker. The novelist deals with a whole, but the short story writer with a fragment, a mere sketch...
...Marcus Aurelius. The letters contained in the volume throw much light on Shaftesbury's character and are all in Shaftesburys' best style. It is this portion of the book that is most helpful to the ordinary reader, for it enables him to understand better a great philanthropist, a sound thinker, and a deep student of human and ethical problems...