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Thus U. S. democracy, which began with the simple fervor of Roger Williams, entered the 20th Century with more complex and troubled beliefs. Trying to uncover a central, durable and indispensable tenet for modern U. S. democracy, Gabriel finds it, as did the late, great liberal, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the one among the 18th-Century "rights of man" which still seems indubitably "natural": individual freedom of thought and speech...
...Walter-Logan Bill would give so many citizens so many days in so many courts that their Government would never have a day out of court. The question posed to Congress was whether a citizen can always have his day, and still have a Government able to do its complex...
Take something immensely more complex than an electron: a living cell. When the cell is "ready" to divide, the centrosome separates and moves to opposite sides, the chromosomes line up in the middle and then split evenly; then some thing nips in the sides of the cell to a wasp-waisted constriction, and finally the cell divides into two healthy duplicates of its original self. Biologists have the devil's own time trying to explain this mysterious, well-drilled maneuver. In Strömberg's view, it is initiated and controlled by an "immaterial wave of organization." Though...
...developing embryo, far more complex than a single cell, has a commanding genie and subordinate genii for each organ, each cell. So has an adult organism. Even colonies of individuals may have a commanding genie, as when the marine animals called Portuguese Men-of-War gather in a cluster which behaves like a single animal, with groups of individuals told off to perform various organic functions. Finally, the whole universe, which is in constant evolution, must have a supreme genie-the Cosmos or World Soul...
...drew lustier inspiration from the Hungarian soil than Bartók: his suite from the opera Háry János, depicting the exploits of a mythical Magyar hero, became a concert favorite. Bartók's mature music suggested his homeland only by a tricky complex of rhythms, dressed up in some of the sourest dissonances ever devised...