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...harassed mother rabbit snapping at a big-eared little rabbit: "Well, if you must know, you came out of a hat." Punch has usually avoided divorce, profanity, violence and prone drunks, always relished outrageous puns (Henry VIII, after a choppy Channel crossing: "Yesterday all was fair, a glorious Sunday, but this sick transit spoils the glory o' Monday...
Despite temporary regressions and stagnation, the history of man has displayed a constant upward spiral. Some day the human race will awaken to the glorious truth, first expressed by Confucius, that "the kingdom of heaven is within you," and that deeds are the vital thing-not belief...
Suzuki had gone to a tiny country school in his home village. He had listened to his teachers tell of Japan's glorious destiny. Later, in the Army, he had been stirred by the fiery speeches of his officers. After the war, in a Japan suddenly decreed democratic, he was told that everything he had been taught before was wrong. Bewildered, he had drifted for weeks about the capital, slept in railroad stations. At times he thought of taking his own life...
...Protestants know anything, they know that thirteenth chapter-'But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three: and the greatest of these is love.' But our attention ought also to be directed to the fourteenth chapter. In the fourteenth chapter of First Corinthians, following right after the glorious hymn to divine love, St. Paul is terribly concerned about order in the church-not so much ecclesiastical order as intellectual order. And in that chapter he makes this striking announcement about God: 'God is not the author of confusion...
Last summer, Huq failed to get a big Interim Government job despite a Congress recommendation, was naturally disappointed. When 200 Moslem students, armed with sticks and knives, politely urged him to rejoin the glorious fight for Pakistan, Huq was converted again. He made a new try for his old job as Bengal Premier, also launched a campaign to stop Mohandas Gandhi's "neighborly" preaching in Bengal. Cried Huq: "I am surprised to see Moslems in Noakhali tolerating Gandhi peacefully...