Milton and This Pendant World

This World Is Yours

This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island . . . (1). When Woody Guthrie wrote and sang these lyrics in 1940, the song was more than a paean to a beautiful country. It was a call to recognize the inherent dignity of the common man. The song’s passion arose from Guthrie’s experiences during the Great Depression, when he traveled with other migrants from ...

This Zoonotic World

The Tropical Bookshelf This Zoonotic World " What I love about my work. .. is that it gives me the privilege of spending time with people whose jobs are so interesting, whose work is so important, whose brains and bodies are so tough. I've said it before. .. but some people, you know, admire medical missionaries, firemen, astronauts. I admire field biologists. " " I have a great job because I g...

Pædiatrics in This Changing World

I BELIEVE that there are times when it is useful and helpful to review certain aspects of medicine, and the changes that have occurred in paediatrics during the past four decades are such, I think, as to warrant some evaluation of the present position and an attempt perhaps to forecast the future position of paediatrics within the framework of general medicine. Certain diseases which were commo...

Sex, Secularity and Belief in This World

This question, posed by our grade nine gym teacher who was doubling that day as sex educator, was a pivotal moment in sexual education at our Christian high school. It arose at the end of a lesson that laid out what our teacher assured us were the essential details of sexual activity. Above all, she explained, we were each going to have to be able to draw a line between what counts as sexual (i...

Milton and Socinianism