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...very idea of a secular realm is a Christian notion; saecula, or age, rests on the Biblical doctrine of the Creation as having a provisional independence over against the God Who created it. In the Christian revelation, a new saecula has dawned, which shows us what this world...
This is as Curley would have had it. It is, in fact, a view that he wished to lure from the realm of story-telling to that of contractual relationships between public officials and the people they hire to build bridges, dig tunnels, bulldoze beaches,, and supply the flowers on funerals and other state occasions. It was to the everlasting disgrace of the Boston Finance Committee that they failed to accept this application...
...representative, will not transform any planet on which he lands, in the same way, or even in a more profound way than he has transformed the surface of the earth. It might suit him to change the orbit of the moon, and it seems within the realm of possibility that he should be able to do so. When we realize that other organisms may be doing similar things at some millions of regions in the universe, we see that life itself and man, as one representative of that state of organization of matter, becomes a cosmic influence himself...
Religion. "To draw a line of separation between religion and life, between the supernatural and the natural, between the church and the world, as though they had no relation to each other, as though the rights of God were not valid within the whole realm of human and social life, this is manifestly un-Christian...
Like much of aging (73) Author Dinesen's fiction, some of these Anecdotes are too fey or too coy for popular consumption. But they have a place of their own in that special realm that authors never tire of exploring-the realm in which artistry, be it Shakespeare's or a cook's, seems more real than reality itself...