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...with her knobkerrie, the African black-jack, and the Bible, sets out through the jungle in search of God. She questions as she meets them: the God of Genesis; a stalwart Roman soldier; Christ himself; St. Peter; Mohammed; Voltaire, who is philosophizing among the jungle people; and finally the sage of Adelphi Terrace; but none give her a satisfactory answer. Christ, she finds "a good-natured fellow who smiled whenever he could" with a low opinion of women. When she found Voltaire digging in his little plot, the black girl was not hesitant in joining him. Just over a wall...
...them who appeared smiling and joyous but wore his smile as a mask to counterfeit his humour, and feign a satisfaction which in reality he had no hope of possessing. Indeed, each as he worked was occupied with such melancholick reflections as might have befitted Panterias the sage, when the future course of his life was revealed to him by the haruspex; as that all the labors of the scholar, the resolutions of the philosopher, even the ecstasies of the poet are meaningless and in vain, when they confront the dark and fathomless abyss beyond. Outside, through the high shining...
...serene Gottingen the university faculty last week talked pridefully concerning knowledge and its fruits, pointed particularly at sage Professor Adolf Windaus and two of his scholastic offshoots. Professor Windaus, 1928 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, was first man to crystallize a vitamin-Vitamin D, in 1931. The same year one of his former pupils, Dr. Ottar Rygh, announced that he had crystallized Vitamin C, the anti-scurvy ingredient of food. Last week another Windaus student, young Dr. Fritz Micheel, who has become a Gottingen professor, reported that he had analyzed the chemical nature of Vitamin C. The three items, reinforced with...
...days later a young pointer named Dr. Blue Willing caused a sensation by getting lost for an hour and a half, after starting his heat with a brilliant find. For the first time in 20 years the brace in the finals belonged to one owner, Andrew G. C. Sage of New York, nephew of the late great Russell Sage. One was Superlette, nine-year-old bitch, who was runner-up last year after going through the trials in a splint to save her bad leg. The other was Rapid Transit, a muscular liver & white dog who, in his semi-final...
...expert was Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, who has labored in India 25 years, whose Christ of the Indian Road is one of the best known evangelical works of modern times. Dr. Jones counts Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore among his friends; Indians call him Rishi (Holy Sage). Christian Modernists and Fundamentalists have both claimed Dr. Jones. The Methodist Episcopal Church thrice offered him bishoprics, but his only allegiance is to its Board of Foreign Missions...