“It was an epoch in my life, it is an epoch in every child's life, the first reading of Robinson Crusoe.”

8 March 1935

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 2, “At Tienappels’,” (1924), trans. by H.T. Lowe-Porter (1928).

Source: 1930s, "Protocol Statements" (1932), p. 96

Antropologia Pedagogica (1910), translated as Pedagogical Anthropology (1913), p. 259.
Context: It seems as though a new epoch were in preparation, a truly human epoch, and as though the end had almost come of those evolutionary periods which sum up the history of the heroic struggles of humanity; an epoch in which an assured peace will promote the brotherhood of man, while morality and love will take their place as the highest form of human superiority. In such an epoch there will really be superior human beings, there will really be men strong in morality and in sentiment. Perhaps in this way the reign of woman in approaching, when the enigma of her anthropological superiority will be deciphered. Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects man always has yielded women the palm.

Source: History of Mathematics (1925) Vol.2, p.384
Context: The first epoch-making algebra to appear in print was the Ars Magna of Cardan (1545). This was devoted primarily to the solution of algebraic equations. It contained the solution of the cubic and biquadratic equations, made use of complex numbers, and in general may be said to have been the first step toward modern algebra.

Forword to The Gentle Tasady : A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest (1975) by John Nance, a book on the Tasaday of Mindanao (7 April 1974)

Source: The Concept of Mind (1949), Ch. I: Descartes' Myth, (1) The Official Doctrine

Book I, VI
Napoleon the Little (1852)

31 July 1937