[…] liberalism was responsible for most of America’s domestic and international problems. It was, simply, a different political world. The question was no longer whether to attend a meeting of the Young Democrats (which at […]
[…] with his family into a high Church position. What hope does the Church hold for me—for this world or hereafter? Everything is for the married woman: a share of her husband s priesthood. The […]
Ruth Benedict perceptively observed: “ The first lesson of history . . . is that when any group in power wishes to persecute or expropriate another group, it uses as justification, reasons which are […]
[…] extensively injurious. Such delusions many have hoped and believed, belonged only to the dark ages of the world, or spread only among the illiterate and ignorant. But such is not exactly correct, for many […]
[…] for themselves and others. But I also believed that all the creativity and good will in the world are useless without the freedom to exercise them. Our group decided to vote against the proposal […]
[…] I tried not to intrude on his thoughts which were no longer of me or of this world. Christmas came and most of the children were home. It was a happy time, with a […]
[…] feel the same way about the twentieth century. There is much that is bad in our time: world wars, unresolved conflicts in the Middle East and the South Atlantic, the possibility of a nuclear […]
[…] by Schopenhauer, with his direct arguments; and by Shakespeare and Brahms, with the infinite variety of their worlds.” In other words, in the variety of artistic representation, Borges finds little that resembles the simplistic […]
[…] in one of the research letters: “Each Saint, will he or nil he, lives in a private world of doctrine, shaped to a great degree by Joseph Smith and his reinterpreters, but shaped much […]
Adolph Hitler was barely one month old when my fa ther, Walter ‘Edward Clark, now still living, was born on 31 May 1889. When he was fifteen, in 1904, Father started to farm on […]