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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA OR DAVID COPPERFIELD-Robert Benchley-Holt ($2). Little rambles with Life's funnyman, one of them serious...
George Bernard Shaw once wrote a play (Major Barbara) about the Salvation Army. The heroine loses a fight, leaves the Army. Lately, in real life, a Salvation Army heroine, Commander Evangeline Booth of the Army's U. S. division won one fight and lost another. She succeeded in getting her aged, sick brother. Bramwell Booth, deposed as General of the Army. She did not succeed in getting herself elected to succeed...
Buddhists believe in reincarnation and, therefore, that life ceases never. When a Buddhist becomes enlightened and good he may himself become a Buddha. Then he reaches Nirvana where there is rest and surcease from the pains of life and death...
Familiar even to Western minds is the endlessly-turning Buddhist wheel-of-life. The wheel represents the cycle of conception, life, death, ascent to a higher plane (or descent to a lower); then reincarnation; and then, again, conception, life, death, ascent...
Certain Buddhist doctrines read curiously like pages from modern scientific treatises. The Buddhist Sutra anticipates the theory of evolution in such statements as "all life emerges from a certain concentration of matter in the form of a nucleus" (i.e., cell). Professor Einstein holds that perception is generally false because relative. Buddhists likewise deny truth to all appearances...