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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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... Arriving in Indus It was not far from Singaling to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, st... ... the Southeast Asian part of the world--but what a universe of difference. From one of the three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third Wor... ... been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced th... ...ducation. In many lands the predominant religions fight this need. Islam, Catholicism and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints frown ... ...about your religion, and I know you were tolerant when St. Francis Xavier converted many in the area of Goa. Such tolerance was unheard of in the We... ... twenty years there have been anti-Christian outbursts in east India where churches and Christian homes have been burned. And, of course, there has b... ...his world so that they could unite with God. And you 50 know that our Roman Catholic priesthood is celibate, as are our nuns and brothers. So the... ... is merely indoctrination. Indoctrination into Christianity, Catholicism, Lutheranism, Islam, atheism., and ‗yes‘ even to the assumption that democr... ...ction. Because the missionaries in their country have been mainly liberal Lutherans from Scandinavia they haven‘t had the bishops and the muftis crit...

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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. ... was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there were so many times with Arline, just ho... ...fferent decision on what is ethical for a patient than an ethicist from a Lutheran hospital or from a county medical center. When we cannot agree on... ...e that? The fact that the exchange of exhaled carbon dioxide by humans is converted to oxygen by plants and the exchange keeps them both alive is inc... ...son he wrote ‗My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than... ... this world.‘ (18) But I would have to admit that the tax breaks given to churches, even mega-churches, make religious preaching a very lucrative jo... ... high number in France or Germany. And Norway, with its state religion of Lutheranism, is quite atheistic. The last statistics I saw were in 2008. Th... ...ar from its original meaning. 216 ―When the Afghan man who had converted from Islam to Christianity was brought to trial, facing the deat...

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... US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaison channels from the Central ... ...telligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Washington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel:... ...pines 197 Pitcairn Islands 198 Poland 199 Portugal 200 Qatar 202 Reunion 203 Romania 205 Rwanda 206 S St. Christopher and Nevis 207 St. Helena 20S St.... ...lgarians Religion: Albania claims to be the world's first atheist state; all churches and mosques were closed in 1967 and religious obser- vances proh... ...c divisions: Scandinavian, Eskimo, Faroese, German Religion: 97% Evangelical Lutheran, 2% other Protestant and Roman Catholic, 1% other Language: Dani... ...Faroese Ethnic divisions: homogeneous white population Religion: Evangelical Lutheran Language: Faroese (derived from Old Norse), Danish Literacy: 99%... ... (FY70-81) Budget: revenues, $704.9 million; expendi- tures, $647.8 million (converted at 41.508 kronur=US$l 1985 average) (1985) Monetary conversion ... ...ion; deficit, $89 billion (general account for fiscal year ending March 1987 converted at 162.0 yen=US$l) Monetary conversion rate: 162.0 yen=US$l (17... ...groups: Coun- cil for the Promotion of Democracy; Korean National Council of Churches; large, potentially volatile student popula- tion concentrated i...

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...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...ftiness” of Charles IX.; but travel through France, see the ruins of noble churches, estimate the fearful wounds given by the religionists to the soci... ...use it has had no policy but that of negation; it inherits the theories of Lutherans, Cal- vinists, and Protestants on the terrible words “liberty,” “... ...dictions of French politics; she saw Francois I. sustaining Calvin and the Lutherans in order to embarrass Charles V., and then, after secretly and pa... ..., with all due deference to historians, are found only in the pages of the romance-writers, without whom they would be lost to the world. At this peri... ...style of ad- dress, “we are about to do battle for the first time with the Roman prostitute. In a few days either our legions will be dying on the sca... ...sion. The execution was an- nounced from all pulpits by the rectors of the churches, while at the same time they gave thanks for the victory of the ki... ...given you permission to unite in a public conference, at which you will be converted by 196 Catherine dé Medici the arguments of the Fathers of the C...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... the round-hand of a boy of seven years old, and finished off with the big Roman capitals Finis, Amen, and ending with the uncompleted sheets, bearing... ...ed by men of energy, and power, and high 113 Yo n g e character; in fact, churches must be organised, the Gospel must be preached by men of earnest z... ...oard of her, and make himself useful on Sundays, according to need, in the churches on shore, a desultory life very trying to him, but which he bore w... ...ious small ravines; at other times the trunk of a tree is hollowed out and converted into an aqueduct; but no pains have been wanting to make provisio... ...gh man to man?” ‘“God sent His own Son to become man.” ‘“Could He not have converted the whole world in a mo- ment to the obedience of faith by some o... ...nd the Ger- mans, used with discrimination, are great helps. An ortho- dox Lutheran, one Delitzsch (of whom Liddon wrote that Dr. Pusey thinks highly ... ...s almost the only clear, plain writer I know among them. Dorner, the great Lutheran divine, gives you about two pages and a half of close print for a ...

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..., darling?” she said. Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He... ...him, poor child?” The monthly nurse tried to quiet her , and pres- ently , from exhaustion, the crying ceased. The doctor walked to a table on the oth... ...’s imagination, and the narrow alleys round the harbour grew rich with the romance which his young fancy lent them. One evening he asked whether he mi... ...ic. He was accustomed to say that Papists re- quired an epithet, they were Roman Catholic; but the Church of England was Catholic in the best, the ful... ...inted in water colours, and she had several albums filled with sketches of churches, old bridges, and picturesque cot- tages. They were often shown at... ...neys hung over it, a pale blue haze; and the tall roofs, the spires of the churches, gave it a pleas- antly medieval air. There was a homeliness in it... ...sake of his German he had been accustomed on Sunday mornings to attend the Lutheran service, but when Hayward arrived he began instead to go with him ... ...pocrites. He was surprised at the contrast; for he knew of course that the Lutherans, whose faith was closer to that of the Church of England, on that... ... I wanted Betty to become a Roman Catholic, I should have liked to see her converted in a crown of paper flowers, but she’s hopelessly Protestant. Bes...

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...es in Bohemia. — Civil War. — Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Religion from Styria. — The Elector Palatine, Frederick V., is chosen King by the Bo... ...ical sym- pathy announced itself; a desolating war of thirty years, which, from the interior of Bohemia to the mouth of the Scheldt, and from the bank... ...stances natu- rally placed this prince at the head of the league which the Roman Catholics formed against the Reformers. The principles which had actu... ...ermany, to rec- oncile the differences between the Roman Catholics and the Lutherans, which, however, was rejected by both parties — Ed. 17 Friedrich... ...when the claims of the other could not have come into existence? Could the Lutherans be justly excluded from these possessions, to which the benevolen... ...which the peace of Augsburg was to have established between the two German churches, the Roman Catholic had unquestionably still the advantage. All th... ...ars’ War preserve the same relative positions. The bound- aries of the two churches had been marked out with the sword; with the sword they must be pr... ...evances was gradually added a chain of singular incidents, which at length converted the anxiety of the Protestants into utter distrust. During the Sp... ...llion; it was deprived of its privileges, and, from a free city of Suabia, converted into a mu- nicipal town of Bavaria. Two circumstances connected w...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...hing or it did not, that he himself was a Protestant to the core, but that Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Rom... ...at Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly 16... ...lf in vain. And a stranger was absolutely neces- sary to Rosamond’s social romance, which had always turned on a lover and bridegroom who was not a Mi... ... particular tenets. If Mr. Bulstrode insisted, as he was apt to do, on the Lutheran doctrine of justification, as that by which a Church must stand or... ...ef points of view, had been shown the grandest ruins and the most glorious churches, and she had ended by oftenest choosing to drive out to the Campag... ...eatherstone’s house, Mrs. Vincy’s want of lik- ing for the Garths had been converted into something more positive, by alarm lest Fred should engage hi... ...uld hardly succeed if we men undertook them,” said Mr. Farebrother, almost converted by Dorothea’s ardor. “Surely, a woman is bound to be cautious and...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide eyed and helpless looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...a’s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? H... ...hing or it did not, that he himself was a Protestant to the core, but that Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Rom... ...at Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly spe... ... particular tenets. If Mr. Bulstrode insisted, as he was apt to do, on the Lutheran doctrine of justification, as that by which a Church must stand or ... ...ef points of view, had been shown the grandest ruins and the most glorious churches, and she had ended by oftenest choosing to drive out to the Campag... ...eatherstone’s house, Mrs. Vincy’s want of lik ing for the Garths had been converted into something more positive, by alarm lest Fred should engage hi... ...done in Middlemarch.” Dorothea’s native strength of will was no longer all converted into resolute submission. She had a great yearning to be at Lowic...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ... the news of this, Paris, all in terror, seemed a city taken by storm: the churches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests an... ...‘this great Prince’ again lies sick; but in how altered circumstances now! Churches resound not with excessive groanings; Paris is stoically calm: sob... ...s English a Shakspeare and Era of Shakspeare, and so produced a blossom of Catholicism—it was not till Catholicism itself, so far as Law could abolish... ...s what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spirit... ..., and salute the Young Spring. (Mercier, Tableau de Paris, ii. 51. Louvet, Roman de Faublas, &c.) Manifold, bright-tinted, glittering with gold; all t... ...ote old Ruhl, with his brown dusky face and long white hair; of Alsa- tian Lutheran breed; a man whom age and book-learning have not taught; who, hara... ...r Revolutionists there is no rest but in the tomb;’ a seagreen Robespierre converted into vinegar and gall; much more an Amar and Vadier, a Collot and...

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...emn emo- tion— Its ability to overcome unhappiness— Need of such a faculty from the biological point of view. LECTURE III THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN Pe... ...ind-cure” movement— Its creed— Cases— Its doctrine of evil— Its analogy to Lutheran theology— Salvation by re- laxation— Its methods: suggestion— medi... ...logy— Does transcendental idealism fare better? Its principles— Quotations from John Caird— They are good as restatements of religious experience, but... ...l prove itself more fundamental than either theology or eccle- siasticism. Churches, when once established, live at second-hand upon tradition; but th... ...l these writers; but how devoid of passion or exultation the spirit of the Roman Emperor is! Compare his fine sentence: “If gods care not for me or my... ...structure of the universe, as a fact worthy of wor- ship. In those various churches without a God which to-day are spreading through the world under t... ...l is due entirely to the way men take the phenom- enon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’... ...uck by a psychological simi- larity between the mind-cure movement and the Lutheran and Wesleyan movements. To the believer in moralism and works, wit... ...t. 188 The V arieties of Religious Experience Lecture IX CONVERSION TO BE CONVERTED, to be regenerated, to receive grace, to experience religion, to ...

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... called him, I won’ t attempt to explain. I knew a young lady of the last “roman- tic” generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a g... ...ed by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy ... ...means of some deed of conveyance. He would probably have succeeded, merely from her moral fatigue and desire to get rid of him, and from the contempt ... ...s not very large, but very delicate and conspicuously aquiline. “A regular Roman nose,” he used to say, “with my goitre I’ve quite the countenance of ... ...l, but without a ceiling. It makes it more refined, more enlightened, more Lutheran that is. And, after all, what does it matter whether it has a ceil... ...compas- sionate intervention of the Church, for in many cases there are no churches there at all, for though ecclesiastics and splen- did church build... ... all, for though ecclesiastics and splen- did church buildings remain, the churches themselves have long ago striven to pass from Church into State an... ...ch into State and to disap- pear in it completely. So it seems at least in Lutheran coun- tries. As for Rome, it was proclaimed a State instead of a C... ...at him incessantly, till at last he sol- emnly confessed his crime. He was converted. He wrote to the court himself that he was a monster, but that in...