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Woman & Gold. Gist of Ramakrishna's gospel: 1) Every religion is true, and a possible path to God. 2) For most men, who are slaves of their senses, a dualistic religion with ceremonies, music and symbols is necessary. Men of purer intellect can attain modified monism; they know there is a further range of experience but are not able fully to realize it. Monism, the realization of oneness of all things with differences merely in form, can be achieved only by those who reach ecstasy. 3) For each ladder of thought there is a corresponding series of duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prophet of All Gods | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...Manhattan has been preparing the 400 pages of indictments and the mass of evidence to be used when the case goes to trial. Prosecutor Creel has also become something of a circus expert, though at Harvard (Class of 1927) he won a prize for a thesis on "The Monism of William James As Contrasted with the Tychism of Other Modern Philosophers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Circus Taxes | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...formalities of parliamentarism. It is being so governed by a group historically associated with the solidification of the present social and economic order. The trouble with forums and the people who patronize them is a major dislocation of the weather eye; Fascism is not a scholastic question like Monism-- it is a practical question, like a riot or a revolution. POLLUX...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 12/7/1933 | See Source »

...attitude toward art and letters. It has a sociology as important as its psychology. Aristotle's social animal is permitted by the humanist to have a safe refuge, the "Civitas Del, so dear to the Middle Ages, from the potential tyranny of his incorporated fellow animals, the State. A monism which can find nothing outside of that unity of which the social group is an essential part can find no sphere outside of which the State is not supreme. Hence, says your good humanist, intense nationalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...small group, his audience gasped. He had demonstrated to them the newest equation in his latest theory, the Unified Field Theory upon which he has been working since he completed the General Theory of Relativity in 1915. For the past century physicists have been striving after scientific monism. Dr. Einstein has been a monist leader. Scotland's James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) correlated light and electricity. In 1905 Dr. Einstein announced that electricity and magnetism are two aspects of one world force. His General Theory of Relativity demonstrated that gravity is an other world force. His hope, realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unified Universe | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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