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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coppery cannibal Indians of upper Brazilian Guiana, squatting at their fires, their poisoned arrows handy on the ground, are not perturbed when a cobra slithers into camp, or a scorpion stings a foot, or a stream of venomous winged ants pours out of the jungle to dispute possession of the clearing. They are used to these annoyances, and could themselves be annoying if you should ascend the Parima River to its source and find them at home, before they have made their annual pilgrimage over the Sierra Parima to the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela. But these placid cannibals were most...
...became once more a Republican, stood passively aside in 1914 when a rebellion against the Government's decision to participate in the Great War profoundly disturbed the country. After the War, in 1918, he came boldly to the front, advocated secession from the Commonwealth in his famous two-stream policy...
...rejection of the Geneva Protocol for the outlawry of war is little realized on this side of the water. Mr. Austen Chamberlain's substitute proposal that England ally herself with France, Germany, and Italy for mutual protection of boundaries seems, on its face, a damming of the war stream at its source. For how should a great war start with these nations allied? But its ulterior significance is being widely discussed in England. It is attacked and defended as a counter alliance against the Russo-Japanese rapprochement which, though partially secret, is generally believed to provide for mutual support...
...Gobbet of Gelatine Makes Manifest the Life-Stream...
...author of Sturly, in 126-pages, without slighting his ichthyology, not only constructs an intimate natural biography; he also evolves a crystalline artistic metaphor-simple, lofty, profound-for the entire theory of bio-chemical metabolism and the Life-stream. To the layman, whatever his philosophy, it will be an arresting book; a re-readable book...