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...Paul of Tarsus was only one of the Apostles. He was not, like Paul von Hindenburg, of the divine lineage itself. . . . This old soldier, too illiterate to even educate himself by reading . . . rises in the glory of his godhead . . . President of the German Republic . . . and is surrounded by a swarm of blissful slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Harden's Contemporaries | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...ripe and ecstatic ex-servant, followed by a teeming succession of pregnancies among the other women (of equally mysterious causation), calms all and gives rise to a salutary myth about Mukalinda, deity of fertilization, who appears as a brightly burning youth; and to a satisfying religion under a female godhead, Bona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parthenogenesis * | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

...have our own Robert Bridges, who was born in 1858 at Shippensburg, Pa.; he is a most genial, attractive, popular gentleman, editor and poet. That Mr. Robert Bridges, American, editor of Scribner's, clubman, author of Bramble Brae, admirer of Roosevelt, was going to sit as a godhead on Ann Arbor campus seemed rather absurd when I heard it. How unhappy, to be sure, he would be; but then, I found I was mistaken. It was the Poet Laureate of England, imported for the little middle-western boys and girls to gaze upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Robert Bridges | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

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