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...anguished seer that Tolstoy became after a religious crisis at 50 attracted both fame and followers of a kind that Sonya did not like. She hated the "institution" of her husband. Worn out by childbearing, jealous of his disciples (she called them "dark people"), infuriated by his decision to give up the copyrights on all his work after 1881, she gradually became a hysterical paranoiac. The familiar story of the last 25 years of their life together is terrible, ending in the old man's wild flight from home at 82, to die of pneumonia in a stationmaster...
Joseph Smith Jr., the New England farm boy obsessed with the idea of digging for buried treasure, who claimed to have "translated" the Book of Mormon from golden plates (by putting a "seer's stone" in his hat, then pulling the hat over his face), was an out-&-out impostor...
George Albert Smith, 75, goateed Senior Member of his church's Council of the Twelve Apostles, became the eighth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). He inherits the mantle of all-powerful Prophet, Seer and Revelator of 954,000 Latter-day Saints...
Standing thus before the picture window of his penthouse studio, Hugh Ferriss, U.S. architecture's most grandiose seer, has often watched dawn come to Manhattan. In that same studio for 17 years he has let his imagination conjure up the future city-magnificent crystal towers, highways like gleaming strips of satin, the aerial span of bridges. For a quarter-century his penciled imaginings have decorated the rotogravure section of the New York Times, the pages of architectural magazines. A professional at architectural "rendering," and otherwise untrammeled by blueprints and specifications, Hugh Ferriss long ago evolved his own self-definition...
Since the public is loathe to accept our honest efforts, an attack of this sort, while seeming amusing to sophomoric college pranksters, does real harm to our cause. Serying, or crystal gazing as you would call it, is the world's oldest legitimate science back to the great seer Teiresias and the pharaohs of Egypt. To cite one example to you who doubt our integrity Roger Bacon long ago prophesied the advent of the airplane the automobile and many of the other modern conveniences after he had utilized the "crystal ball...