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Religion, which tells the news of Africa, where missionaries from Dr. Livingstone on have hopefully striven to spread Christianity, but where the "white man's faith" is now facing unprecedented opposition from nationalism, from Islam, from witches and ancestor worshipers, and from the self-styled Messiahs of Christian splinter sects...
...proclaimed that Armstrong-Jones is not only of royal blood but also a very distant kinsman of Margaret. In a complex chart, Montague-Smith submitted proof that Tony is 22nd in descent from King Edward I's daughter Elizabeth* Moreover, a medieval lord of Harlech was a mutual ancestor of both Tony and Margaret. Exulted Tree Tracer Montague-Smith: "A thrilling discovery! The relationship between Princess Margaret and Mr. Armstrong-Jones really comes to this: they are twelfth cousins, twice removed...
Pierre Lagaillarde, 28. ex-paratrooper, who says: "I may be a fascist, but I'm not a reactionary. My great grandfather was on the barricades. I'm a plain revolutionary!" His egalitarian ancestor died in Paris in 1851 in a futile defense of the Second Republic against the incoming imperial regime of Louis Napoleon. Lagaillarde's principal resemblance to him is a common taste for barricades, but his great grandfather died trying to maintain the constituted authority of the state, not to overthrow...
...Apologists emphasize that man cannot be a descendant of any living ape, and go on to state that man is not really descended from an ape or monkey at all but from an earlier common ancestor. In fact that common ancestor would certainly be called an ape or monkey in popular speech by anyone who saw it. Since the terms 'ape' and 'monkey' are defined by popular usage, man's ancestors were apes or mon keys (or successively both) . . . Man is in the fullest sense a part of nature and not apart from...
...Japanese mind is obsessed with the transience of things, which may help to explain both gimcrack exports and the scroll paintings of ukiyo-e ("the floating world") of the theater and the geisha. This wars with the principle of permanence reflected in the Shinto worship of nation and ancestor. Innovations change the Japanese scene without changing the Japanese...