Word: manichaeans
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...course of two weeks, all the manuscripts passed through my hands, about one thousand a day. Finally, I bought all of them which were of some interest, in Chinese in Sanskrit, in Tibetan, in Logdian, in Eastern Iranian, most of them Buddhistic, but some also Nestrian, Manichaean, even a Hebrew book of prayers, and also the earliest extant manuscripts of the Chineses classic and of some other Chinese works of a historical or literary character, all of them ranging from the fifth to the tenth century of our era. As to the origin of the collection, I formed then...
There is a refreshing and Manichaean completeness to this condemnation. America represents the highest development of vulgarity, stupidity, and selfishness which has ever yet appeared. New York papers solemnly ask Benny Leonard, lightweight champion of the world, as to his opinion of the merits of the various candidates for judicial positions; America went into the war to make the world safe for democracy and has continued instead to make the world safe for dictatorships; America's immigration policy is cruel and hypocritical: America refuses to help Europe because it sees no immediate money profit in so doing...
...began to seek for truth this matter has been the burden of their thought. The result has usually been that in order to defend the infinity of God's goodness they have had to admit that his power was finite. This was the position of John Stuart Mill, - the Manichaean view, though Mr. Mill did not go so far as to personify evil. The Calvinistic view is really nearer to modern thought, when it is expressed in the words, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust...