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...Criticism was salutary while it remained only an influence; but it has now become a sanctioned method, and has used this sanction to usurp power," Muir continued. He charged that the method was often used to find so many possible meanings in words or phrases of a poem, it concealed the principal meaning...
...addition, he argued that unless society draws on its ancient capital of morality and religion it will degenerate into anarchy and ruin. He said that any sanction for freedom has to be based on something more than expediency, that an acceptance of natural law tends to be a protection of liberty...
...Union. He first expressed grateful thanks to a kind Providence, "whose protection has been ever present and whose bounty has been manifold and abundant." He summed up the good state in which the U.S. finds itself in the winter of 1956 (see box). Then, in accordance with the constitutional sanction, he turned to the prospects for the future...
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Abdominal Heroism. At the beginning of World War II, Shinto was both a doctrine and a patriotic duty. Its symbol was the Emperor, who was not actually worshiped (though his ancestors were), but revered for his divine descent and the heavenly sanction of his rule. The Emperor's picture in government buildings was an object of veneration; a classic tradition tells of a schoolboy who, when his school caught fire, rolled up the picture, slashed open his belly, thrust it inside and struggled through the flames to die a hero's death outside. Even as late...