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Nerve grafts from cadavers can be preserved for long periods, Dr. de Rezende found, in either liquid petrolatum or alcohol. The grafted nerve tissue need not be "alive" when transplanted. Reason: "The function of the nerve transplant is to a large extent merely mechanical. The graft presents thousands of microscopic channels which will help the down-growth of the neurofibrils...
...thousand years to make civilization stable; war shows the frailty of their wisdom. War is thus the great evil, and the great revealer of flaws; it is the great darkness when man's artificial light goes out; it is the ruthless exposer of shame. Now it is the function of religion to solve the 'problem of evil' for men none of whom escape evil. Since war is the great evil, it is the ultimate task of religion; unless religion can meet it, it is no good. It has been the power of Christianity that it has sought...
Memorial Hall, today, is only a shell. It stands a gaunt monument to the dead of a forgotten war, meaning little to those who prepare for a vastly greater war. As a college building the theatre annex alone fills a useful function. Mem Hall, today, has lost its dignity and its meaning...
...necessary quorum. That this absurd burlesque of American government was soon righted with a warrant for their arrest in no way diminishes the Axis delight and Allied dismay it must have inspired. The United States, home of democracy, fighting a war in which democracy struggles to survive, can't function because of a small minority group...
...Drucker arrives at no cut & dried scheme for reordering American civilization. He does call for a revision of the forms of government to take cognizance of the fact of life in an industrial society, acceptance of the still unrecognized status and function of individuals in such a world. His thesis does not lend itself to easy paraphrase. It is rather a provocative form of thinking about the problem of preserving individual freedom in a fast-regimenting world...