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...ORIGINAL SIN (179 pp.)-Giose Rima-nelli-Random House...
...hungry Mediterranean aborigines on the harsh hillsides where tourists never go. As a commuter between continents, Rimanelli chose an apt title for his book from a text that he attributes to an 18th century merchant: "These people of the South have upon them the mark of original sin, a curse of Satanas. Whence poverty, invasions, the Bourbons, Jesuits, cholera and all the ills that afflict the spirit and the flesh. And then you ask me: Why do they leave? Are they not content here? I tell you: No. And no government-as distinguished from Christ -can ever redeem them...
...true that a few Hellenes conducted experiments, believed in empiricism, and were interested in efficient causes. But Stoicism replaced Epicurus; Plato and Aristotle succeeded the atomists. Bacon's empirical inheritance came not so much from the ancients as from the alchemists, who, more than any good Greek, committed the sin of hubris in seeking to impose the human will on the natural order...
...moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be pursuing...
...with the broad, strategic repercussions of the riots than with their ostensible cause: the acquittal by a U.S. court-martial of a G.I. charged with killing a Chinese. The extra- territorial privileges enjoyed by American citizens on Formosa are "unendurable," said Singapore's leading Chinese daily, anti-Communist Sin Chew Jit Poh. Manila's biggest paper, the Sunday Times, agreed that this was "the root cause of trouble...