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Although it was a little magazine in 1872, it got a big reception. In pulpit and press, the newborn Popular Science Monthly was denounced as the devilish work of atheists and evolutionists. But blind Editor Edward Livingston Youmans, no atheist but a devout missionary from the world of science to the world of laymen, took the abuse in stride. "The work of creating science," he wrote in Vol. I, No. 1, "has been organized for centuries. . . . The work of diffusing science ... is clearly the next great task of civilization...
...Venetian magnifico who pretends to be dying and to be deliberating on who shall be his heir. A crowd of voracious hopefuls rise to the bait, heap gifts upon him, satiate his own love of gold. With the help of his parasite, Mosca (the Fly), Volpone performs ever more devilish hoaxes upon his would-be heirs. In the end, duped and dupers alike are punished...
...period. There is, for example, the gentle cult of the Yezidis, some of whom are hired as diggers. They worship Shaitan (Satan), whom they believe God has placed in charge of the world. No Christie reader will fail to recognize the prototype of Mr. Shaitana, a curiously devilish figure in Christie's Cards on the Table...
...almost enough to make a so-called Christian country believe in the Devil. There was certainly plenty of evidence of his devilish work around, for anyone...
...might have been worse: the U.S. might have felt no responsibility, no sense of personal implication, in these devilish complications. But whatever else could be said, the U.S. felt uneasy in its conscience. Americans knew that if the U.S. did not remember its old faith, and act accordingly, there would be the Devil...