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...judgement in the amount of food we take, we can achieve economics which will allow the University to purchase better food prepare it in better style: and possibly save some for those starving individuals in other parts of the world, who look upon our wastage as the true sin it really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...that he will shortly be as highly regarded in the U.S. as in his home country. But the forbidding theme of his novels may scare off many U.S. readers: Mauriac dwells in the gloomy fogs and disasters of moral corruption and puts a bleak emphasis on the wages of sin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sin & Sanctity | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...condemnation or contempt. No nation had ever come into the world without bloodshed. In every process of hope, ambition, confused value, self-deceit, India is merely the world in small, and one more terrible warning to the conscience of the world. India's gravest error, her deepest sin, is rampant in all the world and never so madly so as in those portions of the world which call themselves "modern": the incapacity of those who desire to lead people, whether for power or in the highest of good will, to know, love, fear, respect, or even to imagine, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA-PAKISTAN: The Trial of Kali | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...most inspired conceptions of the divine will in man which man has ever dreamed of; and more lately a fount of brotherhood and, among the nations, a preacher of peace. If India could descend to the depths, it could also look up to moral Himalayas. Its recent sin was great, but not unique, especially not unique in origin. It sprang from Kali, from the dark and universal fear which rests in the slime on the blind sea-bottom of biology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA-PAKISTAN: The Trial of Kali | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...Infant Baptism: "There is no evidence of it iri early Christian times. Would an inquiry by experimental psychology show a higher standard of conduct on the part of those 'regenerated from original sin' than appears in others not subjected to baptism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Believe . . . | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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