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...Seneca to Freud. Lewis would say the same of the Christianizing of Europe, a process once regarded as "unique [and] irreversible." "But we have seen the opposite process . . . Roughly speaking, we may say that whereas all history was for our ancestors divided into two periods, the pre-Christian and the Christian . . . for us it falls into three-the pre-Christian, the Christian, and what may reasonably be called the post-Christian . . . It appears to me that the second change is even more radical than the first. Christians and Pagans had much more in common with each other than either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Greatest Divide | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...KerbyMolitor!), nec non tu, o Michael purior quam sapientior, ct tu, o Sullivane frustra infernis ab tenebris resurrecte, et tu, o T. noster Hilaris, adulescens animac plene, Et chorum doctissimum et sobrium, ardium saplentiae fontem liquidae, et famulos fideles totis laudibus ad caclum extollimus. Quibus ombibus "florcatis gloria" dicunt Seneca Altonque Peters; nobis tamen "sacer est ignis (credite lacsis) nimiumque potens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Phaedra Nostra | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

Wrong Combination. In Syracuse, N.Y., ex-Convict Russell Bryant, 51, was unable to force a railroad-office strongbox, spent $31 in taxicab fares hauling it around to friends who also failed to open it, in disgust tossed it into the Seneca River, learned to his dismay after being arrested and sentenced to 20 years that it contained $13 in postage stamps and 44 pencils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 10, 1955 | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...canal-both came to the conclusion that at least parts of the area should be a protected woodland preserve. But despite this triumph, Douglas was obviously unprepared for the sort of welcome he received as the hikers marched on Washington. A dozen volunteers attached themselves to the party at Seneca, 18 miles from the capital. A group of enthusiastic boys, one of whom carried a large U.S. flag, joined up at Great Falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURE: End of the Trail | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

FIVE & DIME oil boom is on at Seneca Lake in eastern Ohio since an auto dealer, wildcatting in his spare time, struck oil at 464 ft. So far, local businessmen have put down 30 wells, have 15 more adrilling, and leases on plots are going for as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 15, 1954 | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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