Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just as a surgeon does not commit himsa (killing), but practices the purest ahimsa (non-killing) when he wields his knife on his patient's body for the latter's benefit, similarly one may find it necessary ... to go a step further and sever life from the body in the interest of the sufferer...
...objected that whereas the surgeon performs his operation to save the life of the patient, in the other case we do just the reverse. But on a deeper analysis it will be found that the ultimate object sought to be served in both cases is the same, viz., to relieve the suffering soul within from pain. In the one case you do it by severing the diseased portion from the body. In the other you do it by severing from the soul the body that has become an instrument of torture to it. . . . Suppose, for instance, that I find...
...last week French Justice was avenged, when smart Mr. & Mrs. Beck applied for a Paris divorce. They were told that their mode of life did not constitute a "fixed residence," and that at least one of them would have to reside ashore for at least six months before they could apply for a French divorce...
...power to the pained, makes the sufferer like unto God. Mr. Crispin learned the philosophy from his father who had tortured him as a boy. At Westminster he was different. His flamboyant red hair, pudgy hands and a distorted face which bespoke a grotesque mind, made him different through life. A man of wealth, he indulged his idiosyncratic taste for cruelty and his incongruous love of good etchings. He liked to choke old ladies. He cut the tongues from the mouths of his three Japanese servants. Mr. Crispin has a son whose father-fixation is so unshakable that he agrees...
...Beisan, Alan Rowe of the University of Pennsylvania found drain pipes, a grist mill, a circular silo, all indicating a busy city life 3,200 years ago. Pagan temples, tools, utensils, seals and jewelry were signs of Beisan's wealth. It was of such civilization that Jeremiah complained: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [Ashtoreth], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that...