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...cakes, at twenty by a mistress, at thirty by amusements, at forty by ambition, and at fifty by avarice. When does he make wisdom his sole pursuit?" Rousseau saw wisdom in nature. Against the traditional Christian notion that children, scarred at birth by original sin, must be civilized through education, he felt that they were really innocent and that they are best educated through the emotions. In Emile, in 1762, he advised: "Keep your child's mind idle as long...
...candidates last night to postpone the election until Thursday. He admitted that some of the posters were in very poor taste. Though he was planning to request that they be removed, he said he could not condone the anonymous action "Impersonating a University officer is a grievous sin," he told the candidates...
Only a few years ago, the nation's proliferating surpluses of wheat and corn seemed as immutable as original sin. Today, thanks to the 1954 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act-the Food for Peace program -the U.S. has whittled the hoard to less burdensome levels by simply selling, bartering and giving away $14 billion worth of surplus food and fiber in eleven years. In 1964 alone, Food for Peace shipments totaled $1.7 billion, one-third of all U.S. foreign...
...firmly religious. "We need to abolish racial discrimination in our country and our churches not because of a clause in the Constitution or because of the Communist challenge, nor yet because we need the votes of the watching world. We need to conquer race prejudice because it is a sin against almighty God and a rejection of the precious blood of Jesus Christ, his only begotten...
From the Treasury. Indulgences first appeared in the 11th century. In those days, the time to be served in penance for sin was often so long that it stretched beyond the penitent's life expectancy, and the indulgence granted for some special act of piety enabled him to cut back on the sentence. Later on, indulgences came to be conceived as release from some or all of the ac cumulated punishment time in Purgatory; the church could draw on its "treasury of merit," an increment gathered from Christ and the saints. The plenary indulgence, canceling all temporal punishment...