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...school of New Testament criticism . . . which maintains that the Gospels are valid sources only for the history of the Primitive Church, not for the life of Jesus." The Resurrection, the Ascension he calls "comforting delusions." Though he thinks St. Paul "superb nonetheless" he dubs him "a fanatic, a stubborn, heedless, Christ-drunk agitator." Browne deprecates the establishment of the priesthood, thinks it was "as ominous as it was inevitable. Created so to 'bank' the fire of Christian faith, the priesthood threatened after a time to extinguish that fire altogether. Yet had not some form of organization developed, the fire might...
...cannot manage itself with normal efficiency. Along comes an irritation which disables one of its parts, say the breast. The body hastily drafts its defense forces. Like Falstaff's paltry men, they are unhealthy, poorly armed. They scurry to the site of the injury, stumble hither and thither, heedless of leadership, out of control - Cancer...
...remarkable pictures of Queen Eliza beth being let down backward from inspecting an Egyptian stone inscription last winter are two examples. Recently their daughter, Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy, raised one royal leg high over the side of an Italian speedster, in order to climb out. heedless of the fact that lenses were looking...
...well known that the house plan has been the ultimate goal toward which President Lowell has steered his course during his twenty years of leadership. No one who has seen him as, accompanied by his inevitable spaniel, he has made his daily rounds of the building under construction, or, heedless of the whizzing traffic, surveyed the rising towers from the middle of the Riverway, can doubt that of all aims and endeavors the quadrangle system lies nearest to his heart. If any monument to President Lowell may be required by future generations, the spires on the Cambridge skyline will serve...
...Heedless reporters thought he referred to the U. S. Congress. The 1923 International Congress of Psychology was the first scientific congress after the War to which all nationals were invited on equal terms...