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...white man or woman was present when China's president was sprinkled with baptismal drops. The trend throughout China today is toward displacing the white cleric or teacher by a yellow person. In certain interior provinces there have even been killings, recently, of Chinese Christian missionaries by their pagan brothers. Two such killings were reported last week in Kiangsi province. The slogan of the hour is "China for the Chinese!" And some Chinese consider Christianity un-Chinese. With these facts in mind Pastor Kaung said last week of his presidential convert: "At this time, when anti-Christian agitation...
Love, even of the unromantic, pagan kind Mrs. Mead found in Samoa, is non-existent among the Manus. Children, like their father, who spoils them, are apt to despise their mother. They are callous about death, birth, the facts of life. Women get no joy out of marriage. Maturity and middle age mean constant debt and hard work. "Above the 35-year-olds comes a divided group?the failures still weak and dependent, and the successes who dare again to indulge in the violence of childhood, who stamp and scream at their debtors, and give way to uncontrolled hysterical rage...
...many years Sigmund Freud of Vienna has studied the tortuous ways of the unconscious mind. Moving his pale hands nervously about among the green pagan gods, the bronzes, the bizarre masks which cover the top of his massive desk at his home, he has written the testament of the psychoanalysts. This week in recognition of his lifelong work, he will receive the Goethe prize given by the German City of Frankfurt. The award is especially appropriate for Dr. Freud. Some 50 years ago, Goethe's essay Die Natur first decided him to abandon the writing of poetry which...
...ended in a disastrous battle. After the fight at Gabhra, Oisin was carried away to the land of eternal youth. Although he liked it there he was wishful to see again his beloved Ireland, find out the survivors of the Fianna. But he had been away 200 years. The pagan Ireland Oisin had known was gone. Padraic mac Alphurn (St. Patrick) and his bishops had Christianized everything in sight. Oisin and the new Ireland found each other incomprehensible. With St. Patrick alone he got along well, for they were both simple, both men of action. When it came to converting...
...life the unicorn entered Christian symbolism, suffered anatomical changes. Of this Author Shepard says: "A creature imagined nobly as terrible, solitary, with the beauty of power, was transformed under Christian influence into a little goatlike animal . . . serving as -the symbol of virginity." The unicorn in Britain's arms is pagan, imported by James I from Scottish heraldry...