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Mind your language

When ‘activist’ used to mean ‘Nazi supporter’

16 June 2018

9:00 AM

16 June 2018

9:00 AM

Rudolf Eucken had a beard and a way of tucking the ends of his bow tie under his collar that I remember Macmillan using in the 1970s. But it was in 1908, a year after Kipling, that Eucken won the Nobel prize for literature. (Anyone read a book by him?) His belief was that truth is arrived at through active striving after the spiritual life, and he called this principle activism.

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