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...only way that Weeks can return the Bureau to its proper non-political realm is to make those letters public. The voters and the government's many scientific personnel deserve to know who is tampering with the Bureau's decisions. Moreover, publishing the names of the 24 legislators will help check any further abuse of this Congressional right...
...forum of the other evening may have served well in pointing up the serious danger portended when and if this type of unthinking, and fanatical individual gets control of the investigatory process on the State or Fedoral level. Furthermore, men of this type are not uninfluential in the realm of public opinions and attitudes...
Joachim's Third Realm corrupted the Christian idea by promising perfection on earth; it also transgressed the limits Plato had set upon the state and upon men's tendency to alter the higher truths of philosophy and religion to fit political or material ends. Militarily, Mongol absolutism entered the West through Hungary; philosophically, political absolutism re-entered the West through Joachim. Joachim's invasion was more devastating because the anti-Christian attempt to embrace salvation on earth went beyond Genghis and other primitive societies, and was to produce despotisms and perversions of truth worse than primitive society...
...first, the Joachimite movement grew slowly. The church condemned Joachim's writings and put down a flurry of Joachimism among some of the Franciscans.* Through religion, the Third Realm entered Russia in the idea of Moscow as "The Third Rome," a last and higher state on earth. (Belief in the Third Rome was welcomed by the czars, used politically by them, and is manipulated by Kremlin propagandists today...
Thereafter, Gnostic influence on thought snowballed. Auguste Comte (1798-1857), whose mark still lies heavily upon the social sciences, set up a system of three states of knowledge; in his Third Realm, called positivism, the scientists would take over "the general direction of this world." Intellectuals who advanced the world toward perfection would achieve immortality in the memory of mankind. Providence was the "Great Being," not God, but a personification of humanity. (A great and in some ways typical 20th century positivist was H. G. Wells, who believed that man was progressing through science to Utopia; Wells's last...