Word: adams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adam Smith" by Professor A. E. More, Harvard 6. (Economics...
Perhaps there is another way, besides literary theft, to account for the coincidences. The scientists may continue their studies, and perhaps uncover a new Ossian scandal; but meanwhile it is safe to make what conjectures our imaginations suggest. The Hebrew Adam tasted forbidden fruit to gain knowledge; the Sumerian Adapa did likewise; the temptation in each case involved a woman; both were driven out of their paradises in the Euphrates Valley to toil in unproductive fields; finally the descendants of both were chastened by a flood which wiped out all but the worthy. In fine, it might seem almost reasonable...
...starting-point simply by continuing far enough in what appeared to be a straight lien. Why is it not equally sensible to believe that a man might literally regain his second childhood if he could live long enough? It is relatively certain that America was discovered long before Adam was ever ejected from the Garden of Eden, Ain't nature wonderful...
...following a "walkout" by the delegates of the human race, attributed to their breaking the Management's game laws. As far as can be determined, there was no opposition offered and no disturbance or damage to private property inflicted in protest. Today, under somewhat different circumstantiates, the newspaper Adam and Eve have been brought out of the newspaper Eden in the Maine woods,--hurriedly wrapped up in horse-blankets, and transported in the depute of flavor to answer to the charge of violating modern game laws...
...steady diet. The state of nature is one state permanently barred from the union by common consent. There are too many porcellain bath-tubs and safety-razors in the world today to make primitive life attractive for any length of time to the overwhelming majority of people. Old Adam, senior, alive today, would be the last man to think of living as he was created, battling black flies for an existence, because he would know how to appreciate civilization. The few individuals who do find civilized life unbearable and run away, lay themselves open to the charge Stevenson perhaps unjustly...