Du Bois

Dubois estimated it once held a brain that was about twice as big as an ape’s and approaching the size of a human’s.

Today’s fast-food workers, hotel chambermaids and nursing-home employees are not enslaved, but as both Lincoln and Du Bois would have understood, they perform labor under a system that has become increasingly unfair and unfree.

The thick skullcap had heavy brow ridges, but Dubois estimated it once held a brain that was about twice as big as an ape’s and approaching the size of a human’s.

In just that line, Du Bois provides a snapshot of what life used to be like before the Fifth Avenue restaurant was abandoned.

Legions of people already accept some version of McGhee’s diagnosis, beginning with other readers of Du Bois.

By doing so, we will also achieve what Du Bois championed: practical idealism based in lifelong learning.

Born shortly after the Civil War, W.E.B. Du Bois came into his own just as Washington was reaching the height of his fame.

Du Bois repeatedly defended liberal education against those who saw it as impractical.

Sir Herbert's squire, Thomas du Bois, joined in his master's confident wager.

Ils travaillaient dans le champ, voisin du bois, je suis all les voir tandis que vous marchiez en avant.

In Emil du Bois-Reymond we find similar contradictions with regard to the most important and fundamental theses of philosophy.

No: the works of Du Bois-Reymond demonstrate it in a striking way.

Du Bois-Reymond curiously confuses “soul” and “consciousness”; whether from oversight or not I cannot say.