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… messages to humanity—Christ, Buddha, Confucius—have come from out the East. It is not unreasonable to suppose … they are serving to transport us to one of those high points of spiritual vantage, from which we may gaze down … of our forefathers, would substitute for them those medieval in struments of torture—the scourge, the rack, the …

… anybody could say anything worth saying on a subject so complex, so obscure, so apparently hopeless. Who could … and biography. But whether there has been a more or less commonly shared and continuous mental pattern throughout … way. Clearly there is much truth in this view. For individuals it can be proved to have happened over and over again. …

… of. We had to lie down, we had to sleep. Which way did we come from? Our footprints point in different directions up … sand. There were chunks of quartzite, cloudy white crystals, scattered all around. They used to use it to make … the light comes clearly now: the galaxies the stars the bodies of light: I could reach out and touch them. Andromeda. …

… overview of The Mind of the South I’ve yet encountered. It points up the specific and real worth of this remarkable … as a paperback reprint from South Carolina [$9.95]. Commanders of the Union Army, namely McClellan, Sherman, and … famous charge of the most famous battle of America’s bloodiest war is the subject of George R. Stewart’s Pickett’s …

… yet fruitful historical debate over the nature of slavery comes of age. It was just 21 years ago that Stanley Elkins … looks at slavery at the moment of its death; all other studies have examined it at its height. At slavery’s end, the … transformation also felt the shock of novelty. As Litwack points out, few Northerners had ever seen the South before …