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...first two volumes of his work Cosmos were seen by their 19th century public as the last word on nature and its origins. Humboldt's ideas were what Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species overthrew. For Humboldt, like Linnaeus before him, saw the natural world as a pyramid of unity, "one great whole animated by the breath of life" -- cooperative within its prodigious variety, with more room for God than allowed by Darwin's harsher scheme of battle and chance variation. The artist must see like a scientist; the scientist, alert to the lessons of the sublime, like...
...implied that events like the 1956 Hungarian crackdown and the 1968 Czechoslovakian invasion would not recur. In addition, with a candor rare even in the West, Shevardnadze said of the controversial Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia: "Let's admit that this monstrosity the size of the Egyptian pyramid has been sitting there in direct violation of the ABM treaty." (His fealty to the treaty was in part motivated by a desire to drive a stake through America's SDI missile-defense program...
...said that as the Soviet Union tried to move forward on arms treaties based on the pact "there stood the station, the size of an Egyptian pyramid, representing, to put it bluntly, a violation of the ABM treaty...
...there they were, making their final pyramid of the afternoon...
...pyramid of funeral wreaths lay beside the wooden coffins in Heroes' Square. There, last week, more than 200,000 mourners gathered in downtown Budapest to bury the Stalinist ghost in Hungarian history. Church bells tolled, and the people sang the Szozat, the emotionally charged hymn of the nation's repeated triumphs over foreign domination...