[…] Physiognomy Illustrated; A Description of the Mental, Moral, and Volitive Dispositions of Mankind, as Manifested in the Human Form and Countenance (New York: D. M. Bennett, 1879). “The People ,” Denton reported another medium […]
[…] all men. To concentrate on his own bruises, to be content with simple self–exposure as another failing human may touch our sympathy but not our spirit. To concentrate on his own heart, to work […]
[…] that someone, somewhere will read and understand. The model for our communication, like the model for all human behavior, is found in the interactions between Chirst and the Father and in their interactions with […]
[…] to print. And when they do hold up, one can always find typographical errors, printing smudges and design problems. Something of a poet himself, Job understood the hazards of publishing. But apparently he had […]
[…] Quaker to Latter–day Saint is an unfortunate title. Neither interesting nor particularly descriptive, it combines with the design and size of the volume to suggest one of those wearying biographies of a minor figure […]
[…] time dealing with the latest discoveries about the brain, Nigel Calder notes, “Two of the most self -evident characteristics of the conscious mind are that 1) the mind attends to one thing at a […]
[…] they have envisioned new pedestals for their women. While all of the twenty–four women must have been human, only a few of them come through their biographers’ treatments without deification. The words with which […]
[…] first looked like a depiction of rubble. Practically kneeling, I saw that it was really a miniature design of the Ely Cathedral itself! The engraved cross rose from its apex—that is, from the lantern. […]
[…] Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints. While the book does its share of debunking, dustjacket sensationalizing and humanizing, it retains a warmness, a specialized vocabulary and a particular set of assumptions that infuse it […]
[…] to what extent can this claim be justified? Did their actions and their stated beliefs justify their conception of themselves as Israel, and was that self -conception accurate according to what the Old Testament […]