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...crane family is composed of fourteen species of tall wading birds. Contrary to popular misconceptions, the heron is not even closely related to the cranes, which are, of course, family Gruidae. The rarest and noblest crane of all is the American whooping crane, order Gruiformes, or simply Grus americana. Like other cranes, the whooping crane prefers life in a marsh, where it can munch away merrily on snails, insects, shoots, and seeds. The whooping crane is distinct from other cranes in that it has a longer neck, a wing span of up to seven feet, and only twenty-nine living...
...what never exists in the laboratory, what Robert Oppenheimer discovered with a great sense of shock in the world outside, is 'sin.' We may understand 'sin' to express the way in which the evil mingles with the good in life, the way in which the noblest efforts of man can somehow become entangled in moral catastrophe. This 'sin' is not to be found under the microscope...
...into one sonorous and coherent story. He succeeds magnificently. More cautious historians-the economic-theory men, the specialists in constitutional law, the nationalists-will cavil at Churchill's large-minded judgments. Yet this same generosity of spirit enables him to write of the American Civil War as the noblest war-one fought on sheer principle. Even Civil War buffs who know the last cock plume in the "shapos" at Bull Run will be moved by Churchill's brief epilogue to Gettysburg: "When that morning came, Lee, after a cruel night march, was safe on the other side...
...materialism-to set up a kind of materialist morality in which "money is the root of all good" because it stands for man's creativity. The best man is "a heroic being with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute...
...died well then, and few died better than Charles Stuart. "In the presence of death," writes Author Williamson, "the King recovered all his dignity, and fell back upon his noblest line of defence-his loyalty to the form of religion in which he had been nurtured. He was no longer driven by fate to conciliate Presbytery or coquet with Catholicism." It is hard now to say that he was a wise king, or even a good one, and his 24-year reign gave England some of its worst hours. Civil wars and wars of religion always produce the deepest horrors...