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...Through all the centuries," says Professor Sinnott, "one question more than any other has perplexed explorers of the realm of man-his strange double nature. The physical part of him, his body, is born, lives, grows and dies . . . But governing that body there seems to be an intangible something that can feel and think, a subtler part of him which is the essence of his being . . . Man seems to be two beings-a material one, and its immaterial counterpart . . . Are they both 'real,' or is one of them no more than an illusion...
...Organization. Not only does lift man ever higher but it provides three great essentials for his religion-: brings order out of randomness, spirit out of matter, and personality out of neutral and impersonal stuff. This Principle of Organization, lifted far above its expression in matter and into the realm of spirit may without irreverence, I believe be thought of as an attribute...
...England's brand-new young Norman King, Henry II. Redhaired, red-tempered Harry made Becket his Chancellor. Towering Thomas a Becket impressed the King with his courage (he would ride to war at the head of his own troop of knights) and skillfully helped Henry rule his vast realm. But to keep the King's peace, Becket had to keep peace with the King. Monarch and merchant's son became friends. Hawking in the marshes of Essex or carousing in the taverns of Cheapside, they were seldom apart...
...tropics) than along the St. Lawrence River. But at his best, he caught the primitive pioneer settlements, magnificent waterfalls, foaming rivers, the awesome virgin forests touched with the full richness of Canadian autumn, and recorded them with a freshness and charm that extends deft draftsmanship into the realm...
...much as by a monarch's pomp and an artist's fictions. The last lines he committed to publication are a rollicking apostrophe to life that few other men of 80-or 40-could have written: "A whirlwind of primordial forces seized and bore me into the realm of ecstasy. And high and stormy, under my ardent caresses ... I saw the surging of that queenly bosom...