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...that even evidence that science now possesses tends to favor belief in Immortality; that there is nothing necessarily shocking to practical intelligence about Immortality. By Immortality I mean what the spiritualists mean, persistence of the undefined 'Soul' after physical death. A little illogicality, I cite the 4,000-year-old Californian sequoia trees as suggestive of a possible afterlife for that part of man which is separate from his body. Then I switch to religion, saying that I believe Christ, Buddha, Confucius and Mohammed to have had greater influence on mankind than any material scientist. I qualify...
...reference to the A. E. F., I may cite General Sherrill, Colonel William Hayward, Colonel Arthur Little and Major Hamilton Fish, all of whom repeatedly and in public have spoken and written in the warmest term's of the devoted loyalty, the unflagging cheerfulness and the unexceled bravery of the Negro troops under their command. Moreover, two of the officers I have named expressed amazement that any troops could bear up under the continual insult, calumny and indignities visited upon the colored men in their command by white men and officers presumably harboring just such an attitude...
...education" he explained. "Memory is the key to knowledge. My course on the poet Omar is the sine quo non of an education because it develops brain capacity. It is my practice to confront the Satellites with a brief quotation from some obscure poem. I then require them to cite chapter, verse, page and line, and to quote what precedes and follows, omitting every other word. None but the finest memory can do that." It was pitiful to see the four...
...France, mère des armes, des arts et des lois, at Paris, ville lumière, cite des passions. Mlle. Stanislawa Uminska, beautiful young Polish actress, stood trial for the killing of her fiancé, Jean Zysnowsky, Polish author...
...earnings of 10,000,000 industrial workers of the U. S.−this on a total outlay of $4,000,000 in gifts and taxes for "American institutions of higher learning of all classes." Roughly, the annual dividend rate is 100% from physical sciences alone. Mr. Scott proceeded to cite biologists, their good works...