The Odd Man in Malta

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

The Odd Man Out: The Kings in Corneille's Machine Plays

Odd man out: Reply to reviewers

Article history: Available online 25 July 2008 This is the author’s reply to three very different reviews of Mind As Machine: A history of Cognitive Science (Vols 1–2). Two of the reviews, written by Paul Thagard and Jerry Feldman, engage with the book seriously. The third, by Noam Chomsky, does not. It is a sadly unscholarly piece, guaranteed to mislead its readers about both the tone and the ...

Malta Fever in the Punjab

During the year 1906, while stationed in Ferozepore in the Punjab, I have had under treatment twelve native soldiers in my Regiment, the 15th Sikhs, suffering from Malta fever, and I think that a few notes about them may be of interest. As they illustrate the different clinical aspects which the disease may present, that Malta fever is endemic in this station, has now been absolutely proved. La...

Malta Fever in Bundelkhand

our present knowledge ot the aetiology a reason for the selection b}7 this disease sometimes known as Rock fever of such unfertile spots may be that in such places goat's milk would seem to be more drunk proportionately by the population than cow's milk. Among the barren rocks of Jhansi, where the cases in question have occurred, the hardier and more active goats can pick up a better living fro...