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Orthodox Marxism holds that society operates in accordance with determined economic laws; this view minimizes the personal element in history. However, the Soviet State that has actually evolved is a dictatorship rooted in the principle of infallible personal leadership. This irreconcilable conflict of ideas prevents Soviet thinkers from agreeing on a definition of what the Soviet State is which leaves the philosophers in the position of being ordered to "militantly advance the spirit" of a thing they cannot define...
...uncle were both artists, and his brother Rembrandt won lasting fame as a portrait painter. Peale, who became a heavy drinker, was ill most of his sober hours, and Author Born thinks that this may have helped him as a painter. Sickness, he reasons, "may become a constructive element in so far as it forces the artist to be more direct, more concise and more economical in his style...
...through modern England which followed when somebody turned up with the Holy Grail. The Williams books inspired Lewis to write a trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) dealing with the forces of Good and Evil at war on the planets of the solar system. One element common to all these stories: the villain of the piece is always a scientist...
...most nearly to embody the Christian sin of Pride-setting up the human will against the Divine. For this sin, Adam & Eve were expelled from the Garden and the heroes of Greek tragedy were punished by the gods. Lewis is a bitter academic opponent of Oxford's "progressive element" of scientists and "practical" faculty members who would lay more stress on "useful" courses than on Oxford's traditional concern with the humanities...
Attention to Details. Not the least important element in this story of how a judge was appointed is the fact that Murphy and Flynn were genuinely worried over the choice-whereas the majority of their fellow citizens were doubtless unaware that the vacancy even existed. Flynn's book, a record of such attention to detail, demonstrates again that eternal vigilance is the price of bossism. Ed Flynn "took care" of plain people in The Bronx so well that he became one of Roosevelt's closest political advisers and hobnobbed with history on missions to Moscow, Yalta...