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...Greeks of 30 centuries ago first learned the arts of maritime commerce, and of naval war-including the amphibious landing. Across the golden bridge of the Grecian islands the civilizations of the Valleys of the Nile and Euphrates first advanced to Europe. Across this strategic roadway world conquerors from Babylon to Berchtesgaden have sped to their brief zenith and decay. In their day both Ramses II and Darius dug canals between the Nile and the Red Sea. As the North African sands still drift over the last burned-out tanks of Rommel, the newest Pharaoh of the Nile cries...
...also a new twist on the old historians' axiom: the more luxury, the quicker a nation degenerates. This was true enough in Babylon, Greece, Rome, Bourbon France and Czarist Russia, where luxury perched atop a pyramid of misery, ignorance and hopeless poverty-Fabergé eggs sprouting from a dungheap. But in the U.S. luxury has come to mean not a declining economy but an expanding one. It is not a historic nightmare but a large part of the American dream. In the words of Ben Franklin, who saw ahead of his time: "Is not the hope...
Billy for Babylon (Contd...
...Graham may reach who are not now and never will be touched by a more sophisticated interpretation of the Gospel . . . There is a touch of presumption, if not worse, in most of the polemic against Mr. Graham -the assumption that the critics are able effectively to reach this modern Babylon, an as sumption flatly contradicted by the facts...
...further prejudice against religion "the modern 'enlightened' but morally sensitive man," let them conduct their own crusade. If they feel that their message is more relevant to the broader social issues of the day, and they are better able to discern the real sins of such a Babylon as Manhattan, let them come out of the editorial sanctuary and tell what they know...