<i> Dialogue 8.3 (Winter 1973): 11 – 72</i> <br> The subject of Pythagoreanism is so controversial and loaded with uncertainties that what follows should be considered as speculation and suggestion for future research.
For most of us, there is little doubt that science was victorious in its centuries-long warfare with theology. From Galileo—kneeling in the robes of a penitent criminal before his Inquisitors, pleading for mercy […]
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[…] 1909 and 1915. When this magazine became defunct in 1915, he hurried his work through. He skimmed over church history very rapidly in the last chapter. He brought the story of the Church down […]
Mira, the protagonist of Marilyn French’s best-selling novel, did not usually buy women’s magazines, but she pored over them at the dentist’s office: “Rate yourself: are you a good wife? Are you still attractive? […]