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There has lately been a tendency to belittle and criticize this painstaking method of scientists, who spend their lives investigating the habits of a Paleozoic jelly fish or some other equally narrow subject. Naturally this attention to apparently picayune detail has very little importance per se, but in relation to the broader aspects of science which deal in theories and hypotheses it is invaluable. If science did not have this foundation of minute and detailed facts, it would pass over into the realm of romance where the imagination is uncontrolled...
...Señor Martinez: You may kill me, but I will not resign...
...have absolutely no clue to the assassins. I have just been to the hospital and I am told that Señor Pacheco will not regain consciousness...
...Korea, Mexico and Brazil the National Methodist churches will be in "competition" with national Presbyterian churches. The Presbyterians have been the most active of U. S. denominations in nationalizing their missions. There are Presbyterian churches of Persia, India and China. In China this church per se is nominal. It has only 17,000 communicants. There is a reason. Some years ago most Chinese Presbyterians decided to merge with other Protestants in China to form the Church of Christ in China (communicants now 120,000). Dissident Presbyterians keep up the old church organization. Presbyterians are the most potent Protestants in China...
...Mauriac, 42, militant Catholic traditionalist, poet, essayist, novelist, is a native of Bordeaux who went to Paris as a young man to lead the literary life. One of his books, Desert of Love, was crowned by the Académie FranÇhise. Other books: Thérèse, Destiny...