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...been as if we, too, had believed the word of the serpent that eating of this tree would enable us to distinguish between good and evil and in doing so "be as God." We have been driven from the Eden of our idealism, yet no angel with a flaming sword bars our return. At any rate, Dean Pound, a discerner of right and wrong of the malum in se and the malum prohibitum, the two varieties of apples that grow upon the same tree by reason of the grafting of law gives us home that we shall again come into...
...October the 200 members assemble and occupy their armchairs in the great Renaissance hall of the College Mazarin to assert their own dignity and listen to the learned speeches of their colleagues. Each member owns an elaborate Napoleonic costume, of tail coat, knee breeches, white-plumed cocked hat and sword. But despite all the formalities and trappings of membership, Institut de France no longer receives the respect from French artists which its age* and dignity warrant. It is frequently hinted that many members of the Institut are elected for political reasons; some of France's greatest men have never been...
...left in the lower right hand side are three figures symbolic of France. Belgium, and England France in the foreground, wearing the Phrygian cap, carries an infant on her left arm and stretches out her right to receive the support of the American soldiers. Behind her, Belgium, a broken sword in her hand, has swooned, and is upheld by other soldiers, while she protects herself partially with the robe of Brittania, a helmeted figure behind her. In the upper left-hand corner is a magnificent representation of the American eagle sillrouetter, against the flag. Behind the soldiers can be made...
...your last number appeared an article on decapitation in China. When I was in China, the technique of beheading was explained to me as follows: Under the Empire, the headsman was a professional man, who used his great beheading sword in one hand, holding the handle as one would a dagger with the back of the blade extending back parallel to his forearm. Beheading was done by a single slice with the long blade instead of a chop. For a consideration from the condemned or his friends the headsman would leave a small piece of skin remaining so that...
...Nanking last week, the progressive Nationalist Government passed a decree forbidding decapitation as a method of punishment. The abolishment of decapitation, however, does not even remotely imply the abolishment of capital punishment in China. It is merely the long, bright, classic sword of the headsman that has been abolished-an antiquated relic deemed unworthy of modern, mechanistic Nationalist China. A Chinese execution is always something of a local holiday. The victim is allowed to drink his fill of rice wine until blissfully intoxicated. At the execution grounds, he kneels down, head thrust forward. Under the old regime...