IS PROGRESS REAL?
Is Progress Real? WILL DURANT -was in Madison recently. "They used to burn heretics," he said, but now they let them talk to the Civics Club." A ripple of laughter greeted this sally, but it was...
...Despite the old-world philosophers, he believes that our American "diseases" are those of growth, not of senility...
...L. Mencken...
...Yet Dr...
...The estate sought to evade Stater income and inheritance taxes...
...Durant's is a voice of enthusiasm, of anticipation...
...He's serving his State free of charge in the vast proceedings being held before Charles E. Hughes, as master representing the United States Supreme Court, in connection with diversion of water from the Great Lakes, by the Chicago drainage district...
...The eggs were moved over to a ploughed land with the hope that the mother duck would return to them...
...Durant says, the modern youth reflects the cynicism toward life voiced by II...
...SERVING HIS STATE WITHOUT PAY OlNE of Washington's interesting visitors is Herman L. Ekern, former attorney general of Wisconsin and late candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination...
...Speech spanned the void between mind and mind...
...Whatever the cause, there is no doubt but that, as Dr...
...The devout say we need a return to religion, the psychologist a liberating of our "inhibited" faculties, the teacher blames the existing educational method...
...One day, on her father's farm the plough came upon a nest containing eight pintail duck eggs...
...It has taken us thousands of years to toil upward from beasts, but the war showed us how quickly we can relapse...
...The magnificent Anatole France called man the unhappiest of creatures because he thinks, and said that the power to think constitutes the human tragedy...
...Washington Star...
...Next day the whole eight hatched...
...That was her start and now the whole farm is run for her pintails, wood ducks, wild turkeys and pheasants...
...Durant...
...But here is the delightful and stimulating author of the "Story of Philosophy," a student of the classics with the rare gift of the "living word," who makes us thrill with understanding of man's conception of life, be it far-off Plato or the more intimate Voltaire...
...She didn't come back that night and Miss Beyers put them under a brood hen...
...Zimmerman of Wisconsin was petitioned to appoint Ekern as the commonwealth's counsel,- but, apparently because of lingering political bitterness, this was not done...
...that our great period i; ahead...
...This is a challenge we have long been considering...
...And he believes in progress, the progress which he defines as the increasing ability of anything to realize its purpose...
...It is not to be measured, says Dr...
...Durant told enchantingly the story of the Marquis de Condorcet who, on the eve of his death during the French Revolution, wrote perhaps one of the most exultant messages of joy and faith in the progress of the world that history has left to us...
...The State treasury at Mladison is about to he enriched by $1,200,000, thanks to a long fight waged by Ekern, as attorney against the hug« estate of the late John I. Beggs, Milwaukee traction baron...
...Wisconsin, along with other Lake States, is contesting the Windy City's right to depress the levels of our inland seas...
...Progress in America has become a sacred cow, according to Dr...
...A ripple of laughter greeted this sally, but it was the kernel of his talk...
...The history of philosophy shows us cycles, with these periods of discouragement toward life...
...Ekern thereupon volunteered to plead Wisconsin's case at Washington as a labor of love...
...Bath tubs, central heating, electricity now make living easier, but is that progress ? There is, particularly in educational centers like the university town, an increasingly articulate dissatisfaction with education "as she is," a discouragement with life...
...man bent fire to his will...
...In the richness of his knowledge which obviously gives him a rare spiritual perspective, Dr...
...he conquered the land and it yielded him livelihood —there have been these long surges forward...
...Miss Lillian E. Beyers, of North Dakota, has made a great success as a breeder of game birds, but she says that the industry is in its infancy and that she knows of no occupation that promises a better chance for women...
...She insists that women are just made for game bird breeding...
...The fruits of civilization fallen to the uses of the jungle...
...Durant, age against age, but against all time...
Vol. 19 • April 1927 • No. 4
