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...state is beyond morality. It is expedient, he held, for the state to be as moral as possible, because a flagrantly amoral state will engender amorality among its people-and that way lies decline and defeat. But in a pinch, said Machiavelli, the state must behave as a law unto itself...
...everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven...
Malraux is not whistling in the twilight. Modern art, he is convinced, accomplishes all those things. What's more, it "has liberated painting, which is now triumphantly a law unto itself. And which, indirectly and unwittingly albeit, has replaced tradition-in other words a culture studiously self-conscious-by a culture that is unselfconscious; setting up against a system of imperatives a system of research and exploration. In this quest the artist (and perhaps modern man in general) knows only his starting point, his methods and his bearings-no more than these-and follows in the steps...
...shepherd. Church authorities have just assigned young Pastor Bernhard Stoeve-sand to be Bartel's assistant and successor. Stoevesand faces the same long training Bartel began three decades ago, has started by giving religious instruction to children. In the sentence, "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he shows "suffer" by a natural soothing gesture, "the" with the little finger of the right hand as expressed in the deaf-mute alphabet, "little children" by a baby-rocking gesture and "come unto me" by pointing to himself...
Edna Rose Ritchings, "celestial" white wife of Negro Cultist Father Divine, told Ebony magazine that many people "wonder if we are happy together living lives of purity and chastity . . ." Wrote Mother Divine: "I am as virtuous today as the day Father took me unto himself as his spotless bride ... To be daily in the presence... is the most glorious privilege any human being could have ... I am a sample and example for all to copy if they desire to be supernaturally and eternally blessed . . . Father Divine ... is greater than any atomic or hydrogen bomb...