The History of Science and the New Humanism by Michael Novak

Author:Michael Novak [Novak, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781351303743
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2018-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

1. J. H. Breasted’s monumental edition of the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus was finally published in August 1930 (2 vols., University of Chicago Press) ; it has more than fulfilled our expectations. An elaborate analysis of it appeared in Isis (15, 355-67).

1. The Euripidean quotation on p. 38 is typical, for it betrays political indifference as well as scientific interest. The Greeks carried their political sluggishness and immorality so far that they ceased to exist as a nation, and jeopardized not only their political but also their intellectual life.

1. To be sure, Islam was soon divided into a number of sects and schools, and one finds in it the same gamut of religious forms as in Christianity, — from the extreme fundamentalism and the strangest mystical aberrations at the right to the purest unitarianism at the left; yet, however different, these were all forms of the same Muslim faith. Every Muslim read the same Scriptures.

1. In a similar way, American Jews study Hebrew grammar in English books, but the analogy ends there. Hebrew grammar was actually born in an Arabic cradle. See my Introduction to the History of Science (vol. 1, 1927, pp. 623, 653, and by index sub voce Hebrew grammar).

1. Pope John XXI.

1. Witness the war between Paraguay and her neighbors in 1864-70. At the beginning of that war the population of Paraguay was about 1,337,439; at the end it was reduced to 221,079, that is, 106,254 women above fifteen, 86,079 children and 28,746 men. Figures quoted by G. M. McBride in Encyclopaedia Britannica (vol. 17, p. 359, 1929).

1. Science and the New Civilization (New York, Scribner’s, 1930). See Isis 14, 446-49.

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