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"Little woman, give me your little paw," said the dying Goethe to his daughter-in-law. Had these been his last words, the great Johann Wolfgang might today seem more human and approachable than generations of followers have made him out to be. Unfortunately he said later: "Open the blind...
Just how bad an effect this lighting has on the students who work under it is pretty uncertain. Back in 1936 a Missouri elementary school ran off an experiment which discovered that students working under "adequate" lighting got 20 percent better grades than a control group. But a follow-up...
I wouldn't be seen dead in a genealogy room, but you may want to check whether or not this 15th Century illumination (see cut, left) is the same device used in the Wallace coat of arms which you describe as "an ostrich about to swallow a horseshoe" [TIME...
The Inner Light is not human conscience or human reason, but is above both, illuminating reason and sensitizing conscience. "It is," Howard Brinton has written in one of the Pendle Hill pamphlets, "that Creative Power which first dawned upon chaos and which draws all things upward into nobler states of...
When the Town Hall is burning, the jail opened, and the looters swarming in the streets, Huguenau, the deserter, perceives Esch, the visionary, walking ahead of him. "Should he knock him over the head with the rifle butt? No, that would only be silly, what was needed was something that...