[…] Thus, the brain has evolved not only with incredible capacities but with great sensitivity to qualities of order and predictability, both important qualities for survival. Hunt also suggests that the human brain may possess […]
[…] Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 74 – 90</i> <br> This paper attempts to throw some new light on the history of this Mormon connected Egyptiana since 1848 (the close of the Mormon era in Nauvoo) […]
[…] See prefatory discussion in Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina, ed. Wayland D. Hand, as vols. 6-7 (1961-64) of The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, 7 vols. (Durham, N.C.: Duke […]
What is this human intimacy, this condition that human beings seek “at every stage of life .. . as urgently as we seek food and drink . . . this need so powerful that we […]
[…] strewn with books and papers in a disarray apparently and singularly immune to her com pulsion for order elsewhere in the house. He accepted the room, as he did her writing in general, as […]
<i>Dialogue 17.1 (Spring 1984): 106–112</i><br>To be a Mormon — in the generic use of that term — is an attitude: an attitude of uniqueness — of peculiarity — • which makes itself known in […]
<i>Dialogue 17.1 (Spring 1984): 44–50</i><br> The big question for me in this controversy is whether freedom of inquiry, with the agonizing ambiguity that accompanies it, will be sacrificed to the interests of those who […]
[…] education, not directly relevant to science, taught him the indispensable skills of hard work, a sense of order, and self-discipline. He also became precise in the use of language and developed a retentive memory. […]
<i>Dialogue 16.3 (Fall 1984): 69-76</i><br>Emma spent her remaining years far removed from the associates who had helped shape the events of that first decade of the Nauvoo period. Like those around her, she did […]
<i>Dialogue 17.3 (Fall 1984): 75–88</i><br>Utah Mormons have had over a hundred years in which to systematize and institutionalize their beliefs. Institutionalized religion tends to expend its energies in conserving and promulgating the truths once […]