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Sargon's Bull. No great number of Chicagoans, even of the select 300 who attended the Oriental Institute's opening, could begin to comprehend the myriad minute implications of the million-&-one mummies, skeletons, sculptures, potteries, cuneiform tablets and other miscellaneous objects with which the new building was nearly packed. Yet even an early Swift or Cudahy would have understood and taken solid satisfaction from Dr. Breasted's prize exhibit - a monster, 40-ton stone bull, set up in the main (Egyptian) hall facing the big bronze gates. No U. S. bull was ever like this...
...many American colleges you will find a majority of the best students working at English literature. You will find a great many more good men working at European history and at the social sciences. This seems to be a logical way of trying to comprehend one's environment. At Oxford nearly all the best men are studying Greece and Rome instead of a modern civilization, and they are concentrating on Greek philosophy. Oxford looks hidebound. It is difficult to see how any one who emerges from a prolonged bout with Plato and Thucydides can be ready for "Sex" and "Labor...
...college men could see that prohibitionists have nothing to gain from their beliefs, and that they are entirely sincere and unselfish in their attempts to improve this country, then these students would be able to comprehend the whole situation more clearly," he said. At present one-third of the nation is dry and believing this to be the best for the whole country; another third is wet purely for its own benefit, and the remaining third is puzzled. If this last third could be enlightened, and show what the wets are really after, prohibition would be assured of success...
...specialized scholar is bound by the same chains. He knows the meaning of his facts in only a limited sense. For meaning comes from understood relationships, and the specialist often ignores the relation of the basic principles of his subject to those of another field. He fails, accordingly, to comprehend the larger meaning of his work; he misses the essential point of fitting his facts into a complete pattern, of seeing their effect on life...
...human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism. It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity . . . and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature...