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The Transcendent Animal. "The obvious fact," says Dr. Niebuhr, "is that man is a child of nature, subject to its vicissitudes, compelled by its necessities, driven by its impulses, and confined within the brevity of the years which nature permits its varied organic forms. . . . The other less obvious fact is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith for a Lenten Age | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Good fun: the oafish, back-country bears who watch the Bongo triangle square itself. Top-drawer Disney: various dreamlike bits of flowing, beautifully planned motion (notably Bongo's love-dream and the climax of his fight); the marvelously oily thrusting and gropings of the magical plant as it grows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

"Let Man Remember. . . ." Consciousness of one's tremendous responsibility in the great evolutionary process was to him the mark of a more highly evolved human being: "Let every man remember that the destiny of mankind is incomparable, and that it depends greatly on his will to collaborate in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Divine Spark | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

A genius, according to Webster, is "a man endowed with transcendent ability." Walter G. Bowerman, assistant actuary of the New York Life Insurance Co., is more specific. A typical U.S. genius (male), he says, is 5 ft. 10 inches tall, weighs 175 Ibs., and begets 5.54 children. Actuary Bowerman has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: One Thousand Heavyweights | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

A. "The transcendent power concentrated in atomic weapons makes politically possible . . . the domination of the world by a single sufficiently large state, provided that state holds the monopoly of atomic weapons. The threat of mutual destruction by atomic weapons of all the states that might possess them, assuming that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: For That or Nothing | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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