The Teachings of Tribulation—“The Captain”

The Teachings of Failure

My first duty is to thank you sincerely for the honour which you have done me in calling me to the presidential chair of this Society. If I do not proceed to enlarge upon my unfitness for a position of such responsibility, it is not that I am not conscious of it; but you are already too familiar with the expression of the sense of self-distrust which appears to be inseparable from the assumptio...

The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Ancient teachings, modern lessons.

Captain of death: the story of tuberculosis

Yet another book for the general reader on the history of tuberculosis, by a retired professor of medicine. Admittedly, most of the others are elderly, but one even has almost exactly the same title-J Arthur Myers' Captain of all these men ofdeath (1977). The prospect is enough to make the professional historian of medicine sigh, and the opening chapters of this book, which recount evidence for...

The Status of Truth in Science-Fictional and Scriptural Texts: Captain KirkTM Meets Captain Moroni

Supposition Error: a novel uses several familar science fiction devices (time-travel, spaceflight, alien encounters, etc.) to illustrate for lay persons and students the dynamics of the philosophy of meaning formulated by C.S. Peirce (1839-1914). In this paper I shall use Peirce's framework in an academic context, to compare and contrast my treatment of The Book of Mormon in the novel Suppositi...