Sir Otto John Beit, 1865 - 1930

1932 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-62
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Personal Interest ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual

The death of Sir Otto Beit on December 7, 1930, deprived the world of the services of one of the most enlightened benefactors of scientific research in the British Empire, a man with remarkably wide and generous views as to the paramount importance of furthering, in the interests of humanity, our knowledge of the phenomena of nature. It may truly be said that his aims were singularly akin to those of the founders of the Royal Society, who laid down the precept that the purpose of the Society should be the advancement or furtherance of natural knowledge. Although in the carrying out of the numerous specific endowments that he founded, he necessarily had advisers, nevertheless he himself always maintained a very close touch, not only with the institutions that he equipped, but also with many of the individual workers, the holders of the many research fellowships founded by him. He took a real personal interest in their work and in the results obtained through their researches, and was remarkably conversant with the nature and objects of these researches.

Individuality and Beyond

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedetta Zavatta
Keyword(s):  
Moral Autonomy ◽  
First Line ◽  
Philosophical Interpretation ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
The World ◽  
Regulative Ideal ◽  
Personal Library ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Based on an analysis of the marginal markings and annotations Nietzsche made to the works of Emerson in his personal library, the book offers a philosophical interpretation of the impact on Nietzsche’s thought of his reading of these works, a reading that began when he was a schoolboy and extended to the final years of his conscious life. The many ideas and sources of inspiration that Nietzsche drew from Emerson can be organized in terms of two main lines of thought. The first line leads in the direction of the development of the individual personality, that is, the achievement of critical thinking, moral autonomy, and original self-expression. The second line of thought is the overcoming of individuality: that is to say, the need to transcend one’s own individual—and thus by definition limited—view of the world by continually confronting and engaging with visions different from one’s own and by putting into question and debating one’s own values and certainties. The image of the strong personality that Nietzsche forms thanks to his reading of Emerson ultimately takes on the appearance of a nomadic subject who is continually passing out of themselves—that is to say, abandoning their own positions and convictions—so as to undergo a constant process of evolution. In other words, the formation of the individual personality takes on the form of a regulative ideal: a goal that can never be said to have been definitively and once and for all attained.

scholarly journals IX. Observations upon so much of Monsieur le Monnier the younger's memoir, lately presented to the Royal Society, as relates to the communicating the electric virtue to non-electrics; by Wm. Watson, F. R. S

1746 ◽  
Vol 44 (482) ◽  
pp. 388-395
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The World is much obliged to Mons. le Monnier for the many Discoverics he has made of the Power of Electricity; though the Reason of my troubling you with this Paper at this time, is my differing with that Gentleman in the Conclusions which he deduces from several of the Experiments contain’d in his Memoir lately presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris , his own Extract of which was lately communicated to the Royal Society .

Appropriating Law in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred

2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura H. Korobkin
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Slave System ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Great Dismal Swamp ◽  
Dismal Swamp ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual

This essay investigates Harriet Beecher Stowe's interpolation of State v. Mann, a harsh 1829 North Carolina proslavery decision, into her 1856 novel Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. The essay argues that Stowe's use of State v. Mann continues a conversation about slavery that had been carried on through its text for many years in abolitionist writings. Bringing State v. Mann's circulation history into view shows Stowe engaging the antislavery establishment as well as the legal system, borrowing and imitating its techniques for handling proslavery materials. If her novel is infiltrated and structured by the many legal writings that it assimilates, its fictive world in turn infiltrates, interprets, and alters the significance of the writings she employs, so that proslavery legal writings are made to testify strongly against the slave system that they originally worked to maintain and enforce. Stowe's hybrid text dominates the law while smoothly assimilating it into an interpretive fictive context. Simultaneously, Stowe's typographical cues remind readers of State v. Mann's ongoing, destructive extratextual legal existence. By linking fictive context to legal content, Stowe's novel suggests that slave law must be read and interpreted as a unit that includes the individual suffering it imposes. Misreading State v. Mann as revealing its author's belief in the immorality of slavery, Stowe constructs a fictional judge who upholds slave law despite his personal beliefs. By absorbing, imitating, and besting the strategies and the reach of both legal and abolitionist writings, Dred implicitly stakes a claim for the superior power of political fiction to act in the world.

I.—Some Modern Aspects of Physical Research

1927 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Alfred Ewing
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Physical Research ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Looking Back

In this ancient and honourable Royal Society we have an association of persons with a common motive, namely to assist the advance of natural knowledge. The chief functions of such a Society are (1) to provide facilities for intercourse, personal and formal; (2) to provide a library—and we have a great library of ever-increasing value ; (3) to provide the means of publication. Records of scientific research are not a readily marketable commodity. They would fare badly if left to the mercy of the ordinary laws of supply and demand. So we meet the cost of publication, and they go out, after some winnowing of chaff from wheat, with our imprimatur. Looking back through the published volumes of our Proceedings and Transactions, you will find papers by Kelvin and other Fellows which may be said without exaggeration to mark epochs in the development of scientific thought.

Initiating New Academic Programs in Materials Science

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 39-41
Author(s):  
M. Mundschau
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
State University ◽  
Bowling Green State University ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Scientific Environment

Materials science has come of age. The need now exists to establish programs in education and research in materials science at colleges and universities throughout the world. It is not realistic to expect that every university will receive funds to found entirely new programs. However, the infrastructure for materials science already exists at most universities that have offered traditional studies in the natural sciences. It is the purpose of this article to provide ideas and suggestions for initiating new academic programs in materials science by using existing resources. The major prerequisite for success is a faculty and staff who are willing and able to adapt to a rapidly advancing scientific environment and who have the individual initiative to seize and profit from the many new opportunities in materials science. This article reports an experiment in progress at Bowling Green State University, Ohio which uses the strengths of the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics and Technology to develop a new program in materials science. I hope it will serve as a model for other universities.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
First Century ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Unmet Expectations ◽  
The World ◽  
Rapid Stimulation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Professional Fulfillment

The Conclusion links the emergence of boredom to the modernist construction of the individual as the producer of meaning in his or her own life. It explains how imperial boredom differed from domestic forms of boredom, and not only reflected changes in the empire, but was also the product of unmet expectations about personal happiness, professional fulfillment, and financial security. It asserts that expressions of boredom were veiled confessions of discontent with the empire. And, it locates imperial boredom in the ongoing debate about whether the British Empire—and by extension empire more broadly—should be regarded as a force for good in the world, suggesting, as Hannah Arendt did, that the imperial experience was fundamentally banal. It calls into question key assumptions about the British Empire, not least that it was glamorous, glorious, and filled with adventure, excitement, and opportunity. It also hints at the broader applicability of the notion of imperial boredom to empire building in the twenty-first century, as well as to the challenges of finding meaning and engagement in a world increasingly orientated around rapid stimulation.

The Royal Society and the Commonwealth: old friendships, new frontiers

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Western World ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
World Today ◽  
British Science ◽  
History Of

For more than three centuries, the Royal Society has played a notable part in the history of the British Empire and in the Commonwealth that succeeded it. In many ways, the history of the Royal Society itself reflects the history of Britain, its colonies, and its Dominions in the pursuit of natural knowledge. This paper considers leading features in the history of Anglo-Commonwealth relations, paying particular attention to people and events that, during the twentieth century, presented the Royal Society—and, by extension, British science—with choices that shape the Western world today.

scholarly journals Leadership Achievements in Extreme Situations

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 172-180
Author(s):  
David Paresashvili
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Leadership ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Transformational Leader ◽  
Composite Image ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Operating Instructions

Organizational leadership requires developing an understanding of your own worldview as well as the worldviews of others. The worldview is a composite image created from the various lenses through which individuals view the world. It is not the same as the identity, political stance, or religious viewpoint, but does include these things. It incorporates everything an individual believes about the world, combining the tangible and the intangible. The individual’s worldview is defined by that individual’s attitudes, opinions, beliefs, and the outside forces the individual allows to influence them. The worldview is the “operating instructions” for how the individual interfaces with the world. One who does not take into consideration how individuals interface with the world is in a much weaker position to lead these individuals. Furthermore, the organizational leadership requires an understanding of the composite worldview of the organization, which consists of the many diverse and sometimes conflicting worldviews of the individuals within that organization. Keywords: Professional experience, transformational leader, leadership interpretations, game norms.

Writing Europe into the History of the British Empire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Rüger
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
European History ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
The Public ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

How should we think of the relationship between Europe and the British empire? Much of the public debate in the recent past has suggested a clear-cut answer: the empire prevented Britain from being drawn ‘into Europe’; it was thanks to its imperial possessions that the United Kingdom could afford not to play a more active European role. Empire and Europe, in short, presented opposite poles in Britain’s engagement with the world. The essay challenges this widely held assumption. It investigates the many ways in which European and imperial experiences were bound up with each other in British life. By doing so, it explores strategies for writing the British empire into European history and European history into the imperial British past.

5. Data protection

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Wacks
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual

The routine functions of government and private institutions require a continual supply of data about us in order to administer effectively the many services that are an integral part of modern life. The provision of health services, social security, credit, insurance, and the prevention and detection of crime assume the availability of a considerable quantity of personal data and, hence, a willingness by individuals to supply it. The ubiquity of computers and computer networks facilitates almost instant storage, retrieval, and transfer of data, a far cry from the world of manual filing systems. At the core of all data protection legislation is the proposition that data relating to an identifiable individual should not be collected in the absence of a genuine purpose or the consent of the individual concerned. Adherence to, and enforcement of, this idea (and the associated rights of access and correction) has been mixed in the nearly 100 jurisdictions that have enacted data protection legislation. This chapter assesses the extent to which these statutes have succeeded in protecting personal data.

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