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And with those words, one reaches the self-contradictory heart of Harvard unbelief--as also in the atheist admiration of Jesus and the agnostic appreciation of the Church. The undergraduate skeptic seems to have forgotten what was the rock on which the Western moral structure has rested for two millenia...

Author: By Friedrich Nietzsche, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Visiting Time. Both the vague expectancies of those who saw nothing else to pin their hopes on and the exaggerated fears of Europeans who thought that they would not be allowed to settle their own destinies rested on a false premise. The U.S. has no desire and no intention of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Big Two | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

The scarred little picture has rested unidentified for more than a century in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. It is the work of a minor Swiss artist named Pierre Eugène du Simitière, who settled in Philadelphia and became Jefferson's friend. Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jefferson at 33 | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

This was the place where Abraham offered up his son Isaac as sacrifice, and was restrained by an angel of the Lord. Solomon is said to have used the rock as the foundation of his temple. Herod built there the temple from which Jesus drove the money-changers. Mohammed rested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dome for the Rock | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

In Chicago's heyday its claim as meat capital of the world rested firmly on its strategic geographic position: midway between two-thirds of the nation's meat production, to the west, and two-thirds of its meat consumption, to the east.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The World's Ex-Hog Butcher | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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