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...Commentary, respond to the complexity of the world just as variously and just as deeply as those who do. And Coles stresses that the people he talks to and writes about--and in a certain sense writes for--are faced with some of the central realities of life in present-day America...
Among the many points cited in support of that contention are ones that Plato cannot have known, but that present-day archaeology confirms. For example, Plato puts sacred bulls at the center of the Atlantean religion; the so-called bull dances of the Minoans are familiar enough to all prehistory buffs. The golden "bull cups" of Minoan provenance at the Athens museum show bas-reliefs of young men capturing bulls with the help of only staves and nooses; Plato describes just such a ritual hunt as taking place on Atlantis. Again, he says that the Atlantean metropolis was built...
...wake of the Pentagon papers investigation, and others with political overtones, even such sober observers as Harvard's Vorenberg profess to see present-day grand juries as an equivalent to the congressional committees of the McCarthy '50s. Unless there is reform, such criticisms are likely to grow louder...
...Italian astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (an uncle of the present-day Paris couturiere) reported actually observing canali linking dark areas on Mars. Although the Italian word can simply mean channels or grooves, it was promptly translated into English as canals, which suggested that they were artificially made. That inspired an erstwhile American diplomat named Percival Lowell (of the Boston Lowells) to take up astronomy and establish an observatory near dry, cloudless Flagstaff, Ariz., principally to study Mars. Lowell spotted hundreds of "canals" on the Martian surface and contributed the theory that they were the work of an advanced civilization. Belief...
...great grandson of Baha'u'llah once wrote: "Leaders of religion, exponents of political theories, governors of human institutions, who at present are witnessing with perplexity and dismay the bankruptcy of their ideas, and the disintegration of their handiwork, would do well to turn their gaze to the revelation of Baha'u'llah, and to meditate upon the World Order which, lying enshrined in his teachings, is slowly and imperceptibly rising amidst the welter and chaos of present-day civilization...