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Even as a phenomenon for study, institutionalized religion did not attract James. Religious experience, he felt, should be first-hand, vital, and the remedy for otherwise incurable maladies of the soul. "At bottom the whole concern of both morality and religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether?" Assuredly the moralist assents to the reigning order, but he may endure it with "the heaviest and coldest heart, and never cease to feel it as a yoke." The religious man, on the other hand...
...Williams had already established the principle of violence for self-defense. "The Negro in the South cannot expect justice in the courts," he had said in a public statement after a white man had been acquitted of the charge of raping a Monroe Negro woman despite the testimony of first-hand witnesses. "He must convict his attackers on the spot. He must meet violence with violence, lynching with lynching." Monroe Negroes were prepared to shoot it out an the picket line, if the town's white people attacked them...
...that by pursuing a focused inquiry we would lose sight of breadth or method--we hoped, rather, that in the pursuit the student would discover breadth and method..." (p. 39) The report continually emphasizes the value of close association with an academic specialist as a means of learning at first-hand "the nature of scholarly inquiry: its rigor, its integrity, and its rewards...
...Seeking first-hand facts, the Prime Minister flew to the front to consult his officers and console the wounded troops. In New Delhi the External Affairs Ministry announced the harshest action of the week against Red China: the shutdown of the Indian consulates in Shanghai and Lhasa. This did not affect India's Peking embassy, which, aggression or no aggression, was doing business as usual. At week's end. some of its business was revealed: under orders from Nehru, Indian diplomats in Peking were carrying on discreet preliminary peace talks with China...
Children line up in huge labyrinths (or sneak out when they can) to visit the two, count 'em: 2, Santas. In the interests of gathering first-hand experience, one CRIMSON reporter joined in the fun. In response to her sincere requests for a modest number of presents, a heavily made-up Santa smiled coldly...