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...17th century, "all the world was America." It was not necessarily a reassuring thought, for America seemed very strange to its first European settlers, particularly the Puritans in New England. To them, its rocky coast and tangled woods were--in the expressive phrase used by one of them--"the Lord's waste," an unowned biblical desert full of strange beasts and savage half-men. However, although America produced no significant landscape painting or religious art during the 17th or 18th century, by the mid-19th century, landscape was the national religious symbol...
...Washington facts sometimes tend to mislead. All the facts sometimes tend to mislead absolutely." This play on Lord Acton's pontification about the corrupting effects of power appeared 24 years ago in Ward Just's The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert. Since then, Just has published more than a dozen works of political fiction that have done what journalism rarely accomplishes: dramatize the work of government through complex characters whose heavy responsibilities defy easy moralizing...
...been shown, however, is that changes in the content of courses alter the social behavior and attitudes of students once they enter upon their professional life. Given the very real demands for his services in our society, there is no reason why the young lawyer should not follow Lord Coke and make meum and tuum his favorite words rather than the vocabulary of social science." --Former Harvard Professor Judith N. Shklar in Legalism
Before 1898, commentator Lord Justice Swinton Thomas told the audience, defendants in England were not allowed to speak because they were usually uneducated and unrepresented...
...that our negative Karma slows our spiritual rebirth in space. But despite our collective bad behavior, we are still aided by friendly, invisible space beings called Cosmic Masters. In 1958, Sir George King, a British yoga expert and the religion's founder, was told to prepare mankind for the Lord of Karma. After his coming, the Chosen will eventually merge with other life streams, becoming stars and planets...