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...Anglo-American academies of thought, where strict forms of empiricism have reigned. "What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know," declared Bertrand Russell. And A.J. Ayer, on behalf of logical positivism, decreed that "all utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical." The accepted wisdom was that the only, valid statements were those verifiable through the senses...
...humanity's other nonmaterial qualities of mind and imagination. A contemporary restatement is the 1947 classic Miracles by the late English literary critic C.S. Lewis, the century's most read apologist for God. Lewis dismissed the philosophy that mind results from nature: "If any thought is valid, an eternal, self-existent Reason must exist and must be the source of my own imperfect and intermittent rationality...
...private, expenses-only trip to bring "the message of Israel" to students and, it was hoped, offset what his countrymen see as rising anti-Israel sentiment among American youth. "People don't have to agree with the Israeli government," conceded Begin, "but I think we have a valid position." Binyamin is a geologist (with a Ph.D. from Colorado State University), "a profession," he joked, "as non-Jewish as rain making." The Premier's son made the supreme sacrifice for an Israeli: instead of wearing his customary open-necked shirt, he donned coat and tie. So strange...
Without doubt, valid objections can be raised to the current system of almost weekly primaries, the unwarranted emphasis on the earliest states and the distorting manipulation, by both candidates and the press, of the psychology of expected results. It may also be true, as New York Labor Lawyer Theodore Kheel observed, that "we pick people for their ability to raise funds, come across on TV, and as campaigners, rather than for their ability to recognize or solve our problems...
...faces a horrendous obstacle course. In order to get on the ballot in all 50 states, Anderson would have to submit a total of about 685,000 valid signatures to the individual states, ranging from 25 in Tennessee to 101,000 in California...