Show DURANT LECTURE MUCH ENJOYED by ivan decker the treat ot of a lifetime Is the comment of 0 many local people who heard will durants Du rants lecture at the 33 A C auditorium in cedar city last saturday night mr air durant presented the subject la Is progress real in a manner which held the immense audience in rapt attention for or an hour and forty minutes exhibiting hi a most pleasing personality a delicate yet effective use of humor and more than all else an intellectuality with which it is ones good fortune to contact but once in a lifetime mr durant carried his audience with him to the last word unquestionably will durant duranl Is one of the worlds keenest and outstanding thinkers alive today it indeed reflects great credit on the B A C and the lyceum committee that they should be able to bring a man niara of this calibro calibre into our midst mr durant first presented the view ot of most of the ancient philosophers and of some alive today that there is no real progress in man himself or in civilization but that improvement has been made only in methods and in tools used my man in offsetting this view however he be gave his ten points in the progress of civilization none of which he said could be lost and all of which had improved man himself and not his tools incidentally he said there is not more crime there are only more newspapers he explained that these emphasized the lurid to supply our real humdrum hum drum goody goody existences with the artificial thrill we crave the tone of the lecture was most hopeful furthermore every listener left the hall with an uplifted spirit about thirty people from parowan carowan attended the lecture |