This volume by Dr. Madsen, Professor of Philosophy at the Brigham Young University, consists of seven essays. The first, “Whence Cometh Man?” raises philosophical problems which become the subjects of the six essays which follow.…
Howard R. Lamar, professor of history at Yale University and author of Dakota Territory, 1861-1899: A Study of Frontier Politics (1956), has extended his investigations to the Far Southwest and produced a scholarly, highly readable,…
In January, 1863, when Union fortunes were low in the Civil War, the governor of the self-proclaimed State of Deseret (Utah) sent these words to the legislature of that quasi-government: This body of men will…
Mr. Newquist attempts in this book to present a particular view of the relationship between the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and current political, economic, and social philosophy. The method…
Joseph Smith prophesied that the time would come when the United States Constitution would hang by a thread; and he indicated that if it were preserved it would be by the Latter-day Saints. The Mormon…
“I am the captain of my soul.” W.E.H. Well sir, I have with trickery and wicked suretyset irremediable courses, have by long habit fixed as my sole owner myself, have practically eradicated from consideration all suggestions offered freely by…
Let him, who hangs between two poles (approval-disapproval), who fits or does not fit the occasion according to conscience, alone. His will is not his own. He is the child of cant. His ubiquitous parent peers preponderantand always over the rims of thin…
Orphan, Prince, Prophet! Was His voice like thunder roaring? Was it like music? Was it like a great windtorn from the center of night?Or was it a father’s controlled whisper? He gave you Aaron, with fluidity of voice like water over…
Look at me, man, look at me! Get your veined nose off the grindstone;remove your ground sun glasses;see the sun, feel it. It is there; I remember it from my childhood(Was it yesterday or forever ago?)prickling upon…
The cat was curled against her legs. She didn’t move them, she lay very still, feeling his little warm breathing body through the electric blanket. She stretched her arms out of the sheets and reached…