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...have seen, it is central to the thesis that each new majority alignment does not represent a rejection of the doctrine and values of the previous majority but rather envelops them and goes on to something else. The Civil War was fought in the name of the Jeffersonian concepts expressed in the Declaration, and the welfare state was a modern reflection of Lincoln's concept of economic opportunity and growth as a prerequisite of freedom...
...wonder how Senator Eastland would explain his concept of human liberty to the millions of Asiatics looking for a political anchor. In these brink-of-war days we can't afford this kind of folly...
...precise and practical man, with a windburned complexion and a flat drawl; he became Sunday school secretary of the Texas Baptist Convention in 1949, and since then has worked out his own theory of how to do his job. "Small units," he says crisply. "The small unit concept is what has built the Texas Sunday school system, and Sunday school is our best evangelistic opportunity. You build a church by building the Sunday school. When you reach people in Sunday school and teach them the Bible, you get the money; they want to expand the kingdom...
This high-sounding concept actually emerged out of the specific problems in the Union of South Africa. There the large Indian minority of 100,000 held second-class status: they were subjected to rigid segregation, contemptuously called coolies, and were forced to register under the hated "Black Act." On Sept. 11, 1906, a large meeting of Indians heard Gandhi describe the consequences of the first pledge to disobey the Black Act. Each man, he said, must be willing to undergo the fight in complete isolation, if necessary, or else the pledge is meaningless. This is one of the basic principles...
...which [my theory] could be disputed is over, and no one today can doubt that we understand the origin of cancer cells." There were disputers nonetheless. One of them Copenhagen's Dr. Jorgen Kieler, told a leukemia conference at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit: "This concept cannot be accepted without reservations." Dr. Kieler showed that under certain conditions leukemic cells "breathed" at the same rate as normal cells. This contradicts Warburg's belief that the respiration of all cancer cells has been irreversibly damaged...