We found that regardless of gender, country, religion, at two years of age, 30 percent lie, 70 percent tell the truth about their transgression. At three years of age, 50 percent lie and 50 percent tell the truth. At four years of age, more than 80 percent lie. And after four years...
In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. I...
This essay argues that anthropologists of religion, who have usually relied upon the "truth of statements" epistemology, produce texts of ephemeral importance. Once published, they soon become closed to the world. Anthropologists of religion who struggle with questions of being as well as of ...
(The religion of the Romans forbade polygamy, and in this enjoyed a huge advantage over the Islamic religion; divorce was permitted, which gave it another, no less significant advantage over Christianity. 牛津英译本pp.152.)其余的部分讨论的都是伊斯兰教。《古兰经》一方面允许多妻,另一方面又命令丈夫...
Science gradually replaced religion as the provider of models and metaphors for comprehending social experience.Every carefully researched work of national history shared in the warm approbation accorded science because it revealed how each country figured in the overall framework of social progress. This...
Truth is as old as God —Emily Dickinson The truth is cold, as a giant’s knee will seem cold —John Ashbery Truth is impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam —John Milton Truth … is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to...
► It is a truth of Christian revelation and Catholic dogma that Jews must be converted to Jesus Christ and the Catholic Faith for salvation, and that the Old Law (the Jewish religion) cannot be observed without the loss of salvation. –Page 245 In 2001, Benedict XVI wrote the preface ...
Is one a “Jew” because his religion is Judaism and he goes to Temple? Or is one a “Jew” because his family is “Jewish” – even though he may not be “religious”? In that case is he a Cultural “Jew”? The truth is that those who consider themselves “Jewish” can convenien...
The followers of science worshipped in a temple where ignorance, censorship, bigotry, and superstition—sometimes equated with religion—had no pew.The twentieth-century followers of White’s vision of the history of science wrote about such exemplars of seventeenth-century English science as Robert ...