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...that they were very religious. All their arts seem to have sprung from the religious impulse or to have been developed in interpreting it. Their gods and culture heroes had the physical attributes of reptiles, birds or lower mammals, although they were often somewhat partly humanized, like the beast gods of Egypt...
...destination was quickly attained, but, before the men could inquire into the cause of their summons, a low wail descended from a snowy tree. Like Androcles, the fire fighters hesitated. But the cry, like the unspecific lament of a hoot owl, did not betray whether it sprang from bird, beast, or fish. Yet it darted so pitifully down that the perplexed rescuers raised a ladder against the tree and sent one of their number hastily...
...second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked above the nine yellow tapers of wax or paraffin. (Candle tallow is generally forbidden to Jews because it might come from a ritually unclean beast...
...textbook on biology used in Texas. One of the passages deleted states with an egotism which is entirely unwarranted, we are accustomed to speak of man and animals whereas we ought to say man and other animals, for certainly man is an animal just as truly as the beast of the field...
...none. Yet in Moscow last week a truly well-known physiologist, Professor Pavlof, froze part of a dog's brain. The dog developed epilepsy. In its veins Pavlof found a toxin which he believes to be the specific cause of the epileptic condition. He immunized a healthy beast by injecting it with the toxin. "If this works with humans," his assistant Dr. Speranski, told a concourse of physicians at Leningrad, "Pavlof has a cure for epilepsy...