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...View. Armed only with a smoked glass, it is possible to see the disk of the sun gradually eclipsed by the moon. As more disappears, dusk comes on. Then it may be possible to see shadow bands playing across the land, a phenomenon the exact origin of which is not known. As the eclipse becomes almost complete, it may also be possible to see "Baily's beads." These are little spots of light coming through the valleys of the moon like strings of bright beads. This is as much as an observer in the region of partial eclipse can hope...
These mourners of Isaac Friedman were of the Hasidim, a cult of Judaism that had its origin among the Polish Jews in the 18th Century, as a movement of popular protest against the strict ritualism and insistence upon the immutability of the law as propounded by the Talmudists, or orthodox rabbis, whom the Hasidim call the Mitnaggedim, or "opposition." The belief in the miraculous powers of their rabbis, and in the blood-kinship with David of a line of rabbis now represented by Isaac Friedman's 17-year-old son, is essentially mystical and emotional in character. Orthodox Jews...
...even if the inspiration is divine, the result hardly justifies such a high origin. So far the revelations from above have merely led him to discover hundreds of commercial compounds made from the lowly potato, the peanut, and the clay of the South. The prayer of the South to have the monotony of corn pone and "side of hawg" replaced by more palatable dishes is being answered through the black magic of Dr. Carver; and if that is not divine it is at least commendable...
Last year four symposia were conducted, on "The Origin of Life", "Sound", "Water", and "Heat...
...Emerson had clearly seen the unity which runs through all life, even before Darwin published his "Origin of Species...