But they imply that such statements were flaws of the heart, the mistakes of a man who yearned to build a worldwide popular front and regarded any stalwart foe of fascism as his ally. Unfortunately, the authors are bet-ter at describing the good man's thoughts and deeds than at explaining them. Readers may share her bewilderment. For him, every interest became a cause. The teenaged scientist then devoted half a year to growing seed taken from Holden's most lovely samples and comparing the ears with their uglier counterparts.
Every true believer draws from a sacred source.
Wallace, a complex man, had several. From his paternal grandfather, a onetime Presbyterian minister who started the family magazine, he imbibed a fondness for Bible lessons that stressed service and brotherhood. As Wallace became politically prominent, he updated this social gospel into a justification for a more sweeping New Deal than Roosevelt ever imagined. The machinery will carry out the Sermon on the Mount as well as the present social machinery carries out and intensifies the law of the jungle. At the same time, the energetic utopian had embarked on a long and frustrating search for a more personal kind of enlightenment.