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One Eternal Round

CWHN 12:379-433

Tenting, Toll, and Taxing

Western Political Quarterly 29:4 (December 1966): 599-630; CWHN 10:33-98. An historical study of the roots of taxation, property and political dominion. — Midgley

Questions on Authority

23 pp., mimeographed class handout, ca.1952. A compendium of passages from the New Testament, the early fathers of the Church, and from historians of Christian antiquity on the question of the apostasy. — Midgley

Victoriosa Loquacitas

“Victoriosa Loquacitas: The Rise of Rhetoric and the Fall of Everything Else,” Western Speech 20:2 (Spring 1956):57-82; CWHN 10:243-286. A study of the rhetoric of the second Sophistic movement and its influence on politics and culture generally, with obvious significance for our own time because of remarkable parallel developments in the current world of business, …

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The Utopians

CWHN 9:487-523

Two Ways to Remember the Dead

in Immortality: Famed Discourses on Eternal Progression and Future Existence, ed. by Gordon Allred (Salt Lake City: Hawkes Publishing Co., 1974): 199-210. This essay was reprinted from Nibley’s World and the Prophets; CWHN 3:163-172.

The God of the Philosophers

Thales (d. 546 B.C.): “Thales says that the God of the Universe (cosmos) is Mind (Nous), and that the Universe (to pan-“everything”) is alive and full of divine power (daemons); also that the basic element of water pervades all things through God’s divine animating power.” “And some say that Spirit is mixed in with everything; …

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