The Mind Is A Vagrant Thing.... Thinking

While The Focus In The Landscape Of Old World Cities Was Commonly Government Structures, Churches, Or The Residences Of Rulers, The Landscape And The Skyline Of American Cities Have Boasted Their Hotels, Department Stores, Office Buildings, Apartments, And Skyscrapers. In This Grandeur, Americans Have Expressed Their Booster Pride, Their Hopes For Visitors And New Settlers, And Customers, For Thriving Commerce And Industry.

The Great Obstacle To Discovering The Shape Of The Earth, The Continents, And The Oceans Was Not Ignorance, But The Illusion Of Knowledge.

The Institutional Scene In Which American Man Has Developed Has Lacked That Accumulation From Intervening Stages Which Has Been So Dominant A Feature Of The European Landscape.

We Need Not Be Theologians To See That We Have Shifted Responsibility For Making The World Interesting From God To The Newspaperman.

Climaxing A Movement For Calendar Reform Which Had Been Developing For At Least A Century, In 1582 Pope Gregory Ordained That October 4 Was To Be Followed By October 15.