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...they had enough leisure to make many purely artistic objects, some of no recognizable use. Their carvings are vaguely akin to Eskimo work but so sophisticated and elaborate as to indicate a relation with some centre of advanced culture - perhaps Japan or southern Siberia -certainly older than the Aztec or Mayan...
...from that of Moses, and that Moses himself probably changed Gods during the Children of Israel's 40 years of wandering in the wilderness during the Exodus. In Genesis the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is regularly referred to as El, and Professor May thinks he was akin to the Canaanite Ba'al. With Moses the Hebrew Bible begins referring to God as Yahweh (Jehovah) more often than as El, and when the Jews invaded Palestine with Yahweh as their God they undertook to exterminate the Canaanites among whom Abraham, worshipping El, had spent his life...
...these words of Congregationalist Professor Edward Chauncey Baldwin spurred into action the B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant), biggest and best-known Jewish fraternal organization. Results are the Hillel Foundations, akin to the Westminster Foundations (for Presbyterians), Newman Clubs (for Catholics), and other denominational societies which flourish on U. S. campuses. Fastest growing of the lot, Hillel Foundations now serve 30,000 young Jews in 50-odd colleges as religious, cultural, recreational and social centres...
...Akin to the feelings of the persecuted early Christians when Constantine suddenly announced his conversion was the feeling of Mexico's long-harassed Roman Catholics when President-elect General Manuel Avila Camacho proclaimed several weeks ago: Soy creyente ("I am a believer...
...dealing with. Politicians and even newspaper men writing from South America refer to the common desire of all the American nations to preserve democracy in the western hemisphere. The truth is that democracy as we know it does not exist south of the Rio Grande. Latin-America is more akin to the "old world" than the United States both culturally and economically. We must face the fact that Latin-American countries must and will sell to anyone, even Herr Hitler. Above all, we must realize that we can aid all nations to defend themselves, but we can not protect...