Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 296, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1927 — Page 12

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THINKERS’ LIST FAILS TO CARRY AMERICAN NAME England Is Nation Most Frequently Mentioned With Three. Bu United Press _ \ NEW YORK, March 18.—Not one American appears on a list of the tan greatest thinkers of all time which has been prepared by Will C. Durant, author of the “Story of Philosophy.” Here is Durant’s list: Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Copernicius, Francis Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant and CarwiK. Aa to nationalities, England is represented by three names and Greece by two, with one each for China, Italy, Poland, France and Germany. A list of ten “runners-up”, constituting a “second team” of world thinkers, still has no American representative: Democritus, Epicurus, Marcus Aurelius, Abelard, Galilee, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer, Spencer and Nietzsche. Durant explained why neither list included such familiar names as Shakespeare or Lincoln. A. Artists First “How shall we define a thinker?” he asked. “Presumably the word will embrace philosophers and scientists. Shall we include men like Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe? No, we shall bow humbly to such great names and class them, despite the reach and fathom of their thought, as only secondarily thinkers, as artists first and above all. .Shall we include such immensely religious figures as Jesus, Buddha, Augustine or Luther? No; these great founders and renewers of religion wopld overlap our term; it was not only thought and reason, but also feeling, noble passion, mystic vision and unyielding faith that made them move the world. "Shall we admit into our council great men of action like Caesar, Napoleon or Lincoln? No; if we spread the word thinker to catch such heroes in its net, we shall.-deprive it of its distinctive meaning, and shall fail to catch the significance of thought.” Durant discussed his ten thinkers in turn, showing how each won an enduring place “by the originality, scope, veracity and' depth of his thought, and by the extent and persistence of his influence.” He admitted that the selection offered considerable difficulties. Study showed whole civilizations which rose and fell without providing any dominant name or powerful secular personality voicing and forming its people. It was so, he observed with India and with the Jews—even with Egypt, “perhaps the most lasting and marvelous civilization ever known.” Among the nomad races of Asia Minor, he found an Isaiah, a Jesus and a Mohammed, but no world-scientist, no world-philosopher. No Roman Thinker Classical Rome also failed to get a place in the list. Lucretius, first and finest of the Latin thinkers, was dismissed ‘"because his philosophy was not his own, and because his influence was esoteric and sporadic, touching only the topmost minds.” Other Roman philosophers were relected “because they were echoes of the Greeks.” After the collapse of the Roman Durant found the re-birth of pure thinking in Thomas Aquinas, a monk of the Catholic Church. “It is true,” he said, “that the world does not follow Aquinas now, preferring a doubting Thomas to a dogmatic one, but there was a time when every philosophy took his work as its premises. Even today, in a thousand colleges, his thought is reverenced as sounder than science, and his philosophy is the official system of the largest church in Christendom. We may not love him as we love the rebels and martyrs of philosophy, but because of his

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