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Whether the sun contains a mysterious element "coronium," unknown to the earth, or whether the phenomenon giving rise to the coronium theory is merely the reaction of a well known element such as oxygen under peculiar conditions on the sun, is one of the many important scientific problems which the Harvard-Technology instruments have been designed to solve...
...outstripped in that high rivalry, and sat inglorious in the midst of your wellbeing, in your pleasant room-and Damien. crowned with glories and horrors, toiled and rotted in that pigsty of his under the cliff of Kalawao- you, the elect who would not, were the last man on earth to collect and propagate gossip on the volunteer who would...
...infallibility of the Bible, about the threat of Science. Today most men of God are fascinated with the economic implications of religion. Judged by their pronouncements in print and from the pulpit, a majority of U. S. Protestant pastors broadly believe that a biblical heaven is possible on earth. But their chiliastic utterances are causing them more trouble, and evoking more angry, obfuscating backtalk, than did ever any argument about Science v. Faith...
...they could understand its full significance without some knowledge of Santayana's background and philosophical studies, seemed questionable. They might feel that the rippling, intellectual talk, full of subtle dialectical twists and adroit insight, which the philosopher puts into the mouths of his characters, was never heard on earth-or at least never in pre-War New England. They may feel also that the central character of a philosophical football player, a young millionaire who sickens and fades because his moral standards cannot be reconciled with the world's madness, is too extreme and implausible to be trusted...
Instead, however, Shirley Tapp awoke that night after 143 hours of coma. Said she: "I seemed to be standing on a cloud, with the earth far below me, and I had a glimpse of Heaven. There seemed to be a veil. I saw God walking toward me on a white path. There was a veil between us. I saw little Jimmie Kilgore [son of Doss who died six years ago]. He was dressed in white and had white hair. He seemed to be picking flowers on a mountain pathway...