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Lynn Townsend White, Jr

(1907–1987) Medievalist

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Lynn Townsend White, Jr was a medievalist.

Quick Facts About Lynn Townsend White, Jr

Born: April 29, 1907
Died: March 30, 1987
Profession: Medievalist

About Lynn Townsend White, Jr

[Wikidata] American historian (1907-1987)... | [Wikipedia] Lynn Townsend White Jr. was an American historian of technology and college president. He was an instructor in medieval history at Princeton University from 1933 to 1937, a professor at Stanford University from 1937 to 1943, president of Mills College, Oakland, California, from 1943 to 1958, and a p

Quotes by Lynn Townsend White, Jr

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake…

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Change

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We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence…

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Axioms

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More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new…

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Crisis

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[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

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Couches

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History is a means of access to ourselves.

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Access

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The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

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Cynical

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If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're…

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Accounts

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Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

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Contemporary

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Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of…

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Firsts

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Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our…

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Arrogance

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