Word: contemplatione
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On a hot summer day, it is a place to feel cool by watching the seals slither through the blue water. Looking at the monkeys, a zoogoer can conclude that they resemble the family in the apartment downstairs-or a family uncomfortably like his own. Looking at a tiger, he...
Gulielma Alsop* can remember when a nickel was a respectable weekly allowance for a little girl. When she went walking with her father, a Quaker who became an Episcopal minister, they were quite apt, as she now recalls it, to discuss such recondite matters as literary style and changing concepts...
Reader Hewson's assertion [TIME, April 28] that your " 'Road to Religion' leads exactly nowhere" is a denial of Christianity itself, as well as every other great religion, and his contention that "ours is not to pray but to act" ignores the crucial fact that first we...
All true religions have taught that the life of contemplation, i.e., of the saints and mystics, is above the life of action as well as the life of pleasure. And, as Toynbee says in Vol. 3 of his Study of History: "The goal of human endeavours . . . will only be attained...
A small boy carefully studied the figure of Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Basis Lecturer on the History of Italian, Civilization, as the boarded scholar walked to lunch at the Faculty Club absorbed in academic contemplation.