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darwin: hooker, line, and sink or swim
…Darwin’s own account suggests that in part he owed the inspiration for his theory to reading T.R. Malthus’s Essay on Population which was written in 1798, though the dates in Darwin’s journal throw some doubt on this. Malthus’s essay purports … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Herbert Spencer, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Dawkins, Richard Milner Darwin, T.R. Malthus
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darwin: creating the pretext for a dilemma
…It is a strange paradox that Darwin, who gave up shooting because of the cruelty it entailed, should have been one of the begetters of the strident power philosophies of the late nineteenth century. The notion of the struggle for … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Carnegie, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, darwinism, ernst haeckel, Gottfried Helnwein, Herbert Spencer, J.C. Lavater, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marx and Engels, oswald mosely, Prince Kropotkin, Walter Bagehot, William Graham Sumner
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fiscal cliffs: mind over chatter
Scientific charity. In railways, steel and finance, Andrew Carnegie was a cool,rational man and his ventures into charity were meant to be scientific as well… In 1889 Andrew Carnegie, in his usual bold and provocative manner, stated his philosophy of … Continue reading
learning from the best
Just to advise that the Nazi version of the death camp, the forced labor camp, did not insidiously arise out of thin air, out of a vacuum. The precedent had already been well established; the mold in large measure a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Tille, Alfred Russell Wallace, Benjamin Kidd, Charles White, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Edith Birkin, Eufrosinia Kernovskaya, Felix Nussbaum, Francis Galton, Frederick Farrar, Friedrich Ratzel, Herbert Spencer, kahanism, Kikuyu detention camps, Lenin Gulag Solovetsky, Martin Heidegger, Max Hastings, Nikolai Getman, robert knox, Sven Lindqvist, The Boer War, W. Winwood Reade
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BOUND FOR GLORY?: TALKING ABOUT BAGISM, SHAGISM, DRAGISM…
” Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion throws many people for a loop the first time they see it. Its reputation as one of the great works of cinema leads them to expect an eye-popper like Citizen Kane, or a work such … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Koestler, Citizen Kane, Edvard Munch, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.B. Pabst, Gordon W. Allport, Heinrich Heine, Herbert Spencer, Jack Kerouac, James J. Sheehan, James Leahy, Jean Gabin, Jean Paul Sartre, John Lennon, John Rader Platt, Joseph Goebbels, Julian Huxley, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, Lewis Milestone, Martin O'Shaugnessy, Max Weber, Noam Chomsky, Norman Angell, Orson Welles, Oswald Spengler, Pete Seeger, Robert Brent Toplin, Robin Bates, Sigmund Freud, The Doors, The Doors Jim Morrison, Timothy Leary, Tom Block, Tom Paxton, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono
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PENETRATING THE ILLUSIONS OF SELF: SHIVERING WITH SHAME
“In a 1937 broadcast entitled,” Craftsmanship,” Virginia Woolf seems to predict the ways that contemporary political movements and subsequent social changes have impacted on readers’ ability to discern meanings in her fiction inaccessible to previous generations. She writes that “words that are unintelligible … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, Arnold Bennett, Arthur Rimbaud, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, Charles Darwin, Clive Bell, D.H. Lawrence, David Garnett, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Taylor, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.E. Moore, Henry Tonks, Herbert Spencer, Herimone Lee, Hermione Lee, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Lyndall Gordon, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Mitchel Leaska, Patricia Kramer, Roger Fry, Rupert Brooke, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Khamsi, Thackeray, Thomas Huxley, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater, Wynham Lewis
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