[…] order to judge the text’s accuracy—this was a new idea about the relationship between narratives and the world. Making the question of scriptural truth a positive question—a question about posits—reflected a wholesale change that […]
[…] regarding the forgotten scripts as undecipherable; nor by viewing the monuments and art in isolation, detached from world history; nor again by accepting the prejudices of the Establishment as the badge of intellectual respectability. […]
[…] our duties in behalf of the Master of men. This change has also had the effect of breaking the traditional reluctance of the Reorganization to mix with the community, a reluctance which may have […]
[…] merely, but by using them to actually change things for the better. They are active principles for breaking up the world. The New Testament, like the Old, is a manual for revolution. The conventional […]
[…] died away when I found myself reading proof for the Deseret News. A few months later the world of letters opened one of its tiny corridors and allowed me to enter as a cub […]
As Hemingway put it, “A writer’s problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, […]
[…] by Brigham Young: There are sins that men commit for which they cannot receive forgiveness in this world, or in that which is to come, and if they had their eyes open to see […]
[…] time when they were cancelling many other regular programs in order to give more air time to news about the war situation, which was now growing critical. His moving account of what happened after […]
[…] of life, and concentration of purpose re moved from the largely mindless, mechanical routines of your everyday world. Cap and gown announced that the wearer had accepted certain rules of living and been tested […]
[…] Widtsoe signature. Several different manuscript dealers and autograph handlers are selling these letters as individual items, thus breaking up an important document collection. The loss to Mormon history and Mormon historians is permanent. There […]