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...bugaboo easily driven to cover by census figures: in 1880 34% of the U. S. population was gainfully employed, while after 50 years of sweeping technological advance, 40% of the population was gainfully employed. Critics who accused Science of making war horrible were facing the wrong way: Science had made war so horrible that in the future nations would recoil from it as if from suicide...
Nemesis in your issue for February 2nd is wrong. There is a perfectly definite enemy, and one that is the special concern of the professedly intellectual or the officially "educated." There is an artificially constructed IGNORANCE concentrated almost in the following order...
Meanwhile the country continued to debate the rights & wrongs of the President's precipitate action on airmail contracts. What his friends had the hardest time explaining away was his wholesale conviction of all airlines without giving any of them a hearing. His motives might have been of the best. He may have been trying to inject a high sense of morals into Government contracts. But his methods found few informed advocates. Many a citizen was content to believe that his President could do no wrong, but there were plenty of others who suspected that his action and his failure...
...need of much reform. . . . I wish to see wild speculation barred forever." The Tribune duly recorded these views along with objections by other Chicagoans. The Chicago Evening American headlined: HEAD OF STOCK EXCHANGE FOR FEDERAL CURB. Not until next day did the Tribune learn that it had quoted the wrong Michael J. O'Brien...
...talking about mediaeval thought, someone must make them talk intelligently. It may be that Mr. Max Eastman is right when he says that scholasticism can not give a true view of the central problems of the modern world; but Mr. Max Eastman is in any case right for the wrong reason. He calls it a philosophy of wish fulfillment, but that is because he does not know anything about William of Occam, or Thomas Aquinas, or any of the mediaeval rebels whose scholasticism led them into the friar movement, and knows too much abut Siger of Brabant and Buridan. Professors...