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In every age, men have struggled to perceive God directly rather than as a tenuously grasped abstraction. Few succeed, and the visions of the world's rare mystics have normally come only after hard spiritual work-prayer, meditation, ascetic practice. Now a number of psychologists and theologians are exploring...
∙KEEP PREJUDICES ALIVE. "It is really exhilarating to see how words can keep Christians distrustful of one another's churches. Take the prayer which the Carpenter taught his disciples. Do Presbyterians pray to be forgiven of their 'debts' or their 'trespasses'? Do Baptists pray...
On February 1, 1870, James recorded in his diary: "Today I about touched bottom, and perceive plainly that I must face the choice with open eyes: shall I Frankly throw the moral business overboard, as one unsuited to my innate aptitudes, or shall I follow it and it alone, making...
The last poem in the collection provides a striking contrast to "During the Eichman Trial." "A Solitude" dissects a fleeting emotion: the poet sees a blind man, and is overcome with a feeling of "strange joy/to gaze my fill at a stranger's face." It is a remarkable poem, and...
Arthur E. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law, commented yesterday that newspaper columnists have an excessive tendency to perceive "pervading attitudes" and "dramatic shifts" in day-to-day political affairs. He said that he is skeptical of the fluctuations reported.