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Human & Divine. The Eastern gods were dark, ponderous, absolute. The Greeks challenged this authoritarianism with the restless spirit of inquiry. Against the hierarchy of the absolute, they set up "the prestige of the imaginary"-man's loftiest ideals fashioned in art. "The sacred was replaced by the sublime, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ars ad Deorum Gloriam | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

For readers of Sheean's previous works of self-revelation (Personal History, Not Peace But a Sword, etc.), such metaphysical posturing will seem familiar. No reporter was ever less contented with bare facts or more portentously absorbed in getting at the groundswell-meaning of things for himself than "Jimmy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Track of the Grail | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

The fundamentals are deceptively simple: 1) that God is immanent and transcendent - the Whole of which all things, especially man, are a part; 2) that man's great potentiality and purpose to achieve a union with the Whole; 3) that man can achieve such union only by ruthlessly eliminating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Manual of Mysticism | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Statistics are a very useful Institution. If one is in possession of the right statistics he can prove almost anything. Some of the latest significant figures have been brought to light in Prussia where it is shown that out of more than a thousand schools 136 are named for the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NUMERICALLY SPEAKING | 11/20/1926 | See Source »

Disgrace for Seniors Immanent.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bulletin of Announcements | 3/21/1914 | See Source »

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