Shows the historical reasons for the present method, and its effect on the Senate and Senators, and on state and local government, with a detailed review of the arguments for and against direct election.
“A timely book.... Prof. Haynes is qualified for a historical and analytical treatise on the subject of the Senate.”—New York Evening Sun.
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BERGSON’S CREATIVE EVOLUTION
Translated from the French by Dr. Arthur Mitchell
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“Bergson’s resources in the way of erudition are remarkable, and in the way of expression they are simply phenomenal.... If anything can make hard things easy to follow it is a style like Bergson’s. It is a miracle and he a real magician. Open Bergson and new horizons open on every page you read. It tells of reality itself instead of reiterating what dusty-minded professors have written about what other previous professors have thought. Nothing in Bergson is shopworn or at second-hand.”—William James.
“A distinctive and trenchant piece of dialectic.... Than its entrance upon the field as a well-armed and militant philosophy there have been not many more memorable occurences in the history of ideas.”—Nation.
“To bring out in an adequate manner the effect which Bergson’s philosophy has on those who are attracted by it let us try to imagine what it would have been like to have lived when Kant produced his ‘Critique of Pure Reason.’”—Hibbert Journal.
“Creative Evolution is destined, I believe, to mark an epoch in the history of modern thought. The work has its root in modern physical science, but it blooms and bears fruit in the spirit to a degree quite unprecedented.... Bergson is a new star in the intellectual firmament of our day. He is a philosopher upon whom the spirits of both literature and science have descended. In his great work he touches the materialism of science to finer issues. Probably no other writer of our time has possessed in the same measure the three gifts, the literary, the scientific, and the philosophical. Bergson is a kind of chastened and spiritualized Herbert Spencer.”—John Burroughs in the Atlantic Monthly.