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...cleared for that purpose in 1776. The mathematical certainties are described in the specifications as 'self-evident truths.' They describe the certainty of an Almighty God, the certainty of human equality before God and therefore before the law of the land, the certainty of the divine origin of human rights and duties, and last but not least, the certainty that civil government is merely man's appointed agent for the protection of God's gifts. These are not mere matters of faith; on the contrary, they are stated as matters of fact...
Hager, no conscious spoilsport, bases his argument on elaborate geological studies of the crater's surroundings. Except for the presence of meteoritic material, he says, there is little or no evidence to prove that the mound or the depression in its center is of meteoric origin. One of his strongest points is that the sides of the mound are made largely of white sand arranged in regular beds. This seems to point to the slow action of normal erosion, not to the sudden impact of a meteorite hitting the earth. Another strong point is that no large mass...
...Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or the Emancipation Proclamation, but he knows vaguely that it is a significant phrase. Professor Jones agrees that the single concept of "the pursuit or happiness" is a very important one in American intellectual history, and he has written this book to explain its origin and significance. The result is a fascinating amalgam of constitutional law, political theory, literary analysis, and popular psychology, embracing topics as obscure as the citizen's constitutional right to smoke opium...
Mayr has been a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, Columbia, the University of Washington, and the University of Pavia in Italy. He is the author of "Systematic and the Origin of the Species...
...tableland and has an experience no lizard has had before. A huge, two-legged, two-armed Thing not only picks Frut up and then drops him, but the Thing draws on the ground with a stick, making those mysterious signs-a heart pierced by an arrow-the origin of which even the Sages of the tableland are hard put to explain...