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Most of the countries are merely using the test ban treaty for international politics. Examples: Israel, which is in fact working on an atomic bomb, is trying to show that it is just as peace-loving as Egypt's Nasser, and East Germany is trying to assert its status as a sovereign nation, though unrecognized as such by the West...
...rather so assert your sovereign will...
Vicious Creeds. James does not bother to choose among the various creeds he catalogues because he considers them all unprovable. "Instinct leads," he writes. "Intelligence does but follow." The act of conversion is, in fact, a complete surrender of human reason: "The will to assert ourselves and hold our own has been displaced by a willingness to close our mouths and be as nothing in the floods and waterspouts of God. The time for tension in the soul is over, and that of happy relaxation, of calm deep breathing, of an eternal present with no discordant future to be anxious...
There are those who neither rebel nor assert egos but are consumed by a vision, like Buddha, Pascal, St. Joan, Mary Baker Eddy. There are the converts who see a sudden or a slow light for which they surrender their past, like St. Paul or Mary Magdalene or Cardinal Newman. There are those who are willing to defy the class or service to which they belong, like Savonarola or Franklin D. Roosevelt or Billy Mitchell, and those who fulfill their individuality in the sometimes more difficult discipline of submission...
There are those, like Moliere, Cervantes, Twain and Thurber, who assert their position against the world humorously?for everyone can laugh, but only individuals have humor. There are the explorers, discoverers and obsessive questioners; their individuality is not necessarily greater because they chose to die, like Socrates, or smaller because they saved their necks, like Galileo. There are the obscure men who, by an accident of history, are forced to develop individuality or at least strength, like Emperor Claudius and Harry Truman. There are, above all, the unremembered and unknown individuals who take their stand and suffer their small martyrdoms...