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...Biblical origin of the three faiths is not so important in this connection, Herberg believes, as the idea "that they are three diverse representations of ... the 'spiritual values' American democracy is presumed to stand for." Thus "it becomes virtually mandatory for the American to place himself in one or another of these groups . . . For being a Protestant, a Catholic or a Jew is understood as the specific way, and increasingly perhaps the only way, of being an American and locating oneself in American society...
What, in the dark recesses of this personality, was the origin of Freud's genius...
Modern archeological methods-including electrical soil probes and carbon 14 dating-are stripping bit by bit the ancient mystery from Stonehenge, the great megalithic monument on Britain's Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge's origin had been forgotten even in Roman times. Now the diggers know the age of different parts of it, where the great stones came from, and what sort of people dragged them to Salisbury Plain. At the Bristol meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Prehistorian R.J.C. Atkinson of the University of Edinburgh told the latest Stonehenge theories...
...division of Germany cannot be supported by any argument based on boundaries or language or racial origin...
Manual of Discipline. The age of the scrolls fixed, the scholars turned to their origin. Archaeologists de Vaux and Harding had already searched the ruins from which Khirbet Qumrân took its name, concluded from the evidence they found that it had been the habitation of an ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, one of the three major religious bodies within ancient Judaism (the others: the Pharisees and Sadducees). Their conclusions: 1) the manuscripts found near Khirbet Qumrân were once part of an Essene library; 2) the sectarian documents, i.e., The War of the Children of Light...