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Historian Gibbon, says Toynbee, was not the only eminent scholar to view Christianity as a menace to civilization. Anthropologist Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) regretted that the "unselfish ideal" of Greek and Roman society, which subordinated the individual to the welfare of the state, was superseded by the "selfish and immoral doctrine" of "Oriental religions which inculcated the communion of the soul with God and its eternal salvation as the only objects worth living for. . . ." The result, said Frazer, was "a general disintegration of the body politic...
Clash of Economies. Last week Spaak said bluntly that he did not think the Western nations have done enough to blend their economies in selfhelp. "All the Western European powers have been practicing a fairly individualistic, not to say selfish, economic policy. We have all tried to save ourselves in very different ways. Some have pursued a policy of austerity [Britain], others a policy of abundance [Belgium], or dirigisme [The Netherlands]. Others, in their search for recovery, do not hesitate to fling themselves into purely monetary manipulations [France...
...profession, you will find those people in it for purely selfish motives. All the morticians I know are very sincere, too conscientious, and are giving the best part of their lives to making death a little less the grim, horrible thing that it is. NANCY ALEXANDER Lenoir...
...became Army assistant had been only those incident to the "orderly liquidation" of his holdings. Cried Pauley: "I have been seriously and perhaps irreparably harmed by Mr. Stassen's falsehoods and unfounded charges. . . . He has combined ignorance and falsehood to indict me solely in pursuit of his own selfish ambitions...
...everyone had bloodcurdling anecdotes about Mihailovich and his Chetniks, whom they considered no better than Hitler and his Nazis. Author St. John scanned the horizon for opponents of New Yugoslavia, but they were as scarce as Tories in the Kremlin. The few he did find turned out to be selfish little rascals whose only aim was to get their confiscated property or obtain a U.S. passport...