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...historical function of civilizations to serve, by their downfalls, as steppingstones to a progressive process of the revelation of always deeper religious insight . . . civilizations will have fulfilled their function when once they have brought a mature higher religion to birth; and, on this showing, our own Western post-Christian secular civilization might at best be a superfluous repetition of the pre-Christian Graeco-Roman one, and at worst a pernicious backsliding from the path of spiritual progress. In our Western world of today, the worship of Leviathan-the self-worship of the tribe -is a religion to which...
They Were Ready. They were "just plain scared" at the thought of another war. But most were resigned to the idea that "we've got to stop Russia." They were divided over U.M.T. and selective service; for one thing, they did not understand how the two operations would function, how they would be separated, or whether both were necessary. But they were convinced that hundreds of thousands of Americans had to put on uniforms. They were ready to believe George Marshall: that the nation had to regain "a reasonable military posture...
Reading from left to right, Adams flourishes as the center of a hardy HYD cell. It has, of course, a goodly number of middle of the readers, but the function chiefly to keep the left from becoming too over-conscious of the offenses of the right, and, conversely, to keep the right from the throats of the left. And the right is strong in Adams: it is second only to Eliot in club...
Whose Bombers? A more important question for Jim, Forrestal to decide concerned the use of strategic airpower. The Navy still thought of itself as the nation's first line of attack, refused to surrender the function of using strategic airpower-in this case, short-range bombers...
...Gross" was identified when he tried to get a copy of "The Theory of Function" for Engineering...