Wednesday, July 22, 2009

in the library today

Arthur O. Lovejoy
Essays in the History of Ideas
B945 L58 E7 (1948)[UBC]

Has an essay on "The Chinese Origin of A Romanticism"
quote on beauty by Sir Christopher Wren (p. 99)

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Max Delbruck
Mind from matter? An essay on evolutionary epistemology
B818 D36 1986 (UBC)

the introduction makes mention of Niels Bohr's lectures "Light and Life" and "Biology and Atomic Physics" - discussions on the impacts of quantum theory on biology

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James Rachels
Created from animals: The moral implications of Darwinism
B818 R323 1990

Had a quote from Charles Darwin:

"Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy
the imterposition of a deity. More humble and I think
truer to consider him created from animals."

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