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...than 400 years later the country was delivered by General Allenby. And now, after nearly 2,000 years of exile and persecution, the Jews (who have supplied the world inter alia with Spinoza, Disraeli, Lord Reading, Albert Einstein, the Rothschilds) are free to go back to the Land which Jehovah promised them...
...Aldwinkle's best bedroom, does not matter, for Aldous Huxley has made these people, not in the image of the Omnipotent, but in his own. It is the unquiet imp of his own self-consciousness that squirms in each. He capitalizes self-consciousness as a literary idea. Like Jehovah, and better than any man since, he understands the implication of that famed formula, I am. His writing is a gallery of many mirrors, variously awry, each reflecting the pale and sharply smiling image of the weariest young man of a too brilliant century?a young man who beholds with urbane...
These are the more ambitious features, which I have mentioned in what is necessarily a rapid review. There are many other pleasant and witty titbits." "A Sad Case" of Mr. K. O. Rockcracker, who was dismissed from the chair of Biblical Geology in Jehovah University, is a delightful little ironic sketch. "The Week" and "Paternalism" and the "Theory of Democracy" are so like serious New Republic editorials that it robs them of the zest and humor which make the rest of the number so attractive. And yet in their way they are the best parodies...
Gods in the skies?Jesus, Jehovah, Allah and Buddha?are all right as subjective symbols of human potentialities and attributes and of natural laws, even as the Stars and Stripes on a pole, Uncle Sam in the capital and Santa Claus in a sleigh are all right as such symbols; but such rods are all wrong...
...Saving Grace of humor is lacking in some very religious people, and thus absurd sects arise and flourish. Dr. Pollock, of Los Angeles, solemnly told radio fans last week that Zacharia 9:14 contains a prophecy of radio. (The passage reads: "And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and His arrow shall go forth as the lightning.") He even more solemnly declared that the millenium is not far off, because the automobile has fulfilled the prophecy of Nahum 2:4. ("The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways; the appearance of them...