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...Years ago I debated this problem with Count Tolstoy," he began. "I maintained to Tolstoy that one must be allowed to defend himself. He said: 'No. We should not resist evil, men. If another Genghis Khan should come along and we defend ourselves, we would only anger him and more of us would become his victims. If we did not resist, he would kill a few, but soon desist...
...hope of heaven as a driving power in the life of men; and that God within--the unifying element which drives men to unity in a brotherly world--replace a medieval, imperial deity who makes irrational demands on his human subjects and savagely punishes or extravagantly rewards those who anger or please him; who looks upon this world and its happiness as immaterial or evil, centering all interest on a supposed life after death...
...brother had been more than a family squabble. For Lord Kylsant's official statement included the phrases: "write off . . . for estimated shrinkage (under present conditions in heavy British industries) of investments in other than shipping companies." These "investments" were guessed to be the base of Viscount St. Davids' anger, were seen to be unwise and unwarranted uses...
...breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger and invective they learned he had been a prizefight, cabaret and theatre promoter; an actor playing the heavy in Ten Nights in a Barroom; a Florida realtor; a suspect at Scotland Yard; a bail-jumper in a Connecticut liquor case; a painter, inventor, "naval expert...
...motherhood an act of God? This question, involving all the profundities of metaphysics, faith and physiology might well give pause to anyone, however learned. The answer YES would surely affront countless atheists, agnostics. The answer NO would just as surely anger multitudes of the pious. Yet several men were actually confronted with this question last week and expected to make a public reply...