Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sanatani Hindu, Gandhi accepts Varna (color), while disavowing the caste system, but stands by the concept of caste in marriage and the profession as the law of heredity. The principle of Swadeshi (home manufacture, i.e., spinning) is akin to the ancient Greek spirit of the hearth and Chinese ancestor worship. Satyagraha was coined by Gandhi from the words Saty (truth and love) and agraha (firmness) as the Hindu interpretation of soul force. Closely akin to this is Christ's admonition to "turn the other cheek...
...Ornithologists insist that the Modock and the Oozlefinch derive from a common ancestor. The Modock's first migration to the U.S. was noted early in the 1920s, when the Quiet Birdmen insisted that they were no relation to either the kiwi or the Modock. The kiwi's natural habitat is New Zealand...
...many another in the lives of the Muhlenberg (family-greatest in the history of U.S. Lutheranism-will be re-enacted at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. The occasion: the 200th anniversary of the arrival in the U.S. of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), sire of Washington's general and ancestor of many another famed parson, statesman and educator. He was the real founder and patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the U.S., was called Gachs-wunga-roracks by his Indian friends because "his words went through the hearts of men like a saw through a knotty plank...
Returning to America in 1938, Viereck made public his thesis concerning Nazlism and the historical character whom he considers to be its spiritual ancestor, Richard Wagner. Thomas Mann was attracted by this new philosophical discovery, and through his efforts, Viereck was commissioned by knopf Publishers to enlarge his findings into "Metapolitics...
...group becoming a sort of separate race," said Withington. "They have always been very clannish, and are the only Orientals in Hawaii who don't mix with the others, and breaking off with the home country won't make them mingle any more. Of course, the tremendous power of ancestor worship may work against this, but I think that the new patriotism is stronger...