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...always taken a somewhat uncompromising view on the matter of depriving others of life-which is the express purpose of birth control . . . Dean Pike refers to the sex act as "the sacrament of unity . . ." According to the Episcopal Church, a sacrament is "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." Grace, in a sense, is that which conforms us to God-the Creator. What grace can there be in an act from which every creative element is deliberately removed...
Psychic energy may also flow inward or outward. If in an individual it usually goes outward, he is an extravert. When he perceives an object or situation, his first reaction is to project his energy onto the object and away from himself. But if it flows inward, he is an introvert, and his first reaction is along the lines of "What will this do to me?" Jung then breaks down personality types into four classes, depending on which of the major psychic functions they rely on most heavily: sensation, thinking, feeling or intuition. Since anybody can be either extraverted...
...three times. A visiting politician dropped by the senate chamber in Springfield's old statehouse to watch one of the sittings, later described the scene: "He [Lincoln] sat to the artist with his right foot on top of the left and both feet turned inward-pigeon fashion-round-shouldered-looking grim as fate, sanguinity his expression, occasionally breaking into a broad grin ... He chatted, told stories, laughed at his own wit-and the humor of others-and in one way and another made a couple of hours pass merrily and never once lost his dignity or committed himself...
...diplomatic tornado that was swirling around the world. Two hundred and fifty miles away, the mangled bodies of Chinese Nationalists killed in the Communist Chinese attack on the islet of Yikiang were tossed ashore by the turbulent waters of the East China Sea. There was little calm, outward or inward, in Washington or in London or in the United Nations headquarters at New York. In the world's capitals, last week was recognized as a time of decision and danger...
...with one another, the two nations have discovered likenesses. The Turks are Moslems but not Arabs; their Islamic ties are complicated by bitter relationships with the Arabs, whom they ruled for four centuries. Both Israel and Turkey are virile, modern and westward-looking inhabitants of an old, static and inward-looking region. Turkey admires Israel's compact little army as the region's second-best force (after her own), while Israel sees Turkey as the only other Middle East power of military significance. For Israel, an island in a sea of hatred, the new .neighborliness is doubly welcome...