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The Friendly Snowflake: A Fable of Faith, Love, and Family
No full textOriginally copyrighted in 1992. M. Scott Peck is the author of The Road Less Traveled. Christopher is his son, who volunteered to illustrate the book. Young Jenny is surprised by a friendly snowflake -- Harry -- who alights on her nose and, after a short stay, evaporates. Jenny is the poet, mystic, and believer, I would say. Her brother Dennis is the scientist who explains all that he can and calls the rest an accident. Jenny's winter musings lead her to wonder whether everything has a soul and whether the ocean is the heart of the world and if we all reincarnate. She is ready finally to believe that Harry may have evaporated and gone away but also may have come back through the dam and into Babcock Brook. She says good-bye and waves her hand. I'll see you again next year! There is some water damage to the translucent dust-jacket. Was it Harry that got to my book?This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)M. Scott Pec
The historical imagination of Christopher Dawson
No full textChristopher Dawson (1889-1970) was one of his generation's most
important historians and religious thinkers, and was a significant
influence on many contemporaries including T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis,
and Russell Kirk. This dissertation is a study of his most
fundamental ideas concerning history and culture.
Chapter one examines Dawson’s sociological view of history.
Convinced that history was more than a scientific enterprise, he
believed that the true historian is one who reaches beyond the
material world to understand the essence of history’s dynamics. In
this way, the world can be conceptualized as a united whole,
separated by regional differences as a result of environment, race,
material, psychological, and religious factors. Dawson believed
that the political histories of the past several centuries failed to
grasp the undercurrents of historical change, and that the best way
to understand the past is to appreciate culture as an expression of
primeval religious traditions.
Chapter two treats Dawson’s understanding of progress. Dawson
was convinced that progress had become the “working-religion” of our
age. This secular faith, founded on scientific rationalism, first
pledged to fix the material failures of Western culture, but
unwittingly eroded its faith in God, and eventually, its moral
fiber. Dawson believed that true progress was progress of the soul
in its ordering toward the Creator.
Chapter three is a study of Dawson’s Christian, and more
specifically, his Catholic beliefs. Informed by religion, his
historical and cultural visions are not dogmatic, nor are they
polemical. He conceived of history as the unfolding of a divine
economy in the temporal world. Although Dawson is a proponent of
Roman Catholicism, his scholarship is an objective treatment of
history shaped by an undisguised, Christian worldview.
Additionally, the appendix is an introduction to Dawson’s life
and the circumstances surrounding his conversion to Roman
Catholicism. Particular attention is paid to the development of his
moral and historical imagination — both of which became intertwined to
form the basis of all of his scholarship
New Modes of B lymphocyte Regulation in Autoimmune Disease
No full textNew Modes of B lymphocyte Regulation in Autoimmune Disease
Christopher Scott Wilson
Dissertation under the direction of Professor Daniel J. Moore
The deleterious roles that B lymphocytes play in autoimmunity and regulation of immune
tolerance are well documented in the literature. B lymphocytes are thought to mediate autoimmunity primarily through presentation of autoantigens to T lymphocytes. Targeting B lymphocytes by depletion clinically in autoimmune disease has been attempted with varying levels of success. The failure of current clinical approaches may be the result of a deficit in our understanding of the role of B lymphocytes in autoimmune disease. B lymphocytes possess multiple functions which, depending on context, may mediate distinct immunologic outcomes. Certain instances have indicated that B lymphocytes can mediate immune regulation. Targeting B lymphocyte function and homeostasis in autoimmune disease revealed novel ways that B lymphocyte regulate organ damage and reverse autoimmune disease. This work highlights new ways to foster B lymphocyte regulation of autoimmune disease
Gyroscope angular rate processing across asynchronous clock domains
No full textThesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-86).by Christopher Scott Osborn.M.Eng
Direct syntheses and structural novelty of lanthanoid aryloxides with flexible radial arms
No full textThe definitive version may be found at www.wiley.comMarcus L. Cole, Glen B. Deacon, Peter C. Junk, Kathryn M. Proctor, Janet L. Scott and Christopher R. Straus
Literary Executor of the Estate of Christopher Dawson
No full textChristopher Dawson was a historian of religion and culture who wrote and lectured in England and America between the 1920s and his death in 1970. The author of this review, Dawson’s grandson and literary executor, argues not only that Dawson is very interesting to read as a historian, but also that many of his insights and proposals — such as his writing on European unity, nationalism, the consequences of a secularized culture and the conflict between humane individualism and state totalitarianism — remain highly relevant today. This article highlights some of Dawson’s most interesting and insightful ideas and aims to encourage readers to rediscover the writings of Christopher Dawson through his twenty-three books
Racism debate at Gunn
No full textReply in underground newspaper Goat Head Soup to article in the official student newspaper, the Oracle. Goat Head Soup issue banned and author of article Scott Madsen reprimanded by principal Christopher Rich. Concerns voiced about censorship and First Amendment right
XLBlocks: a Block-based Formula Editor for Spreadsheet Formulas
No full textSpreadsheets are frequently used in industry to support critical business decisions. Unfortunately, they also suffer from error-proneness, which sometimes results in costly consequences. Experiments in the field of program education have shown that programmers tend to make fewer errors and can better focus on the logic of a program if they use a block-based language instead of a textual one. We hypothesize that a block-based formula editor could support spreadsheet users in a similar way. Therefore, we develop XLBlocks and conduct a think-aloud study with 13 experienced spreadsheet users from industry. Participants are asked to create and edit several formulas, using our block-based language. We then ask them to evaluate this editor using the Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework. We found that for all dimensions the block-based formula editor received a better evaluation than the default text-based formula editor.Accepted author manuscriptSoftware Engineerin
"Historian of the spirit": an introduction to the life and ideas of Christopher H. Dawson, 1889-1970
No full textWhat follows is an intellectual biography of the English Catholic historian Christopher Henry Dawson (1889-1970). If there is one overarching thesis to this dissertation, it is that Dawson's place within the history of Britain and the United States and within the historical academy in general has been hitherto underappreciated as a result of unfair categorization of his work by critics, and equally unhelpful credulous assessments imd subsequent politicization of his scholarship by overzealous admirers. Even though his perspectives will probably never be completely embraced by the historical academy due to current trends in historiography, it is hoped that this dissertation will demonstrate that Dawson’s scholarship is deserving of study because of the breadth of his intellectual and practical activity in Britain during the twentieth century, and his groundbreaking role in identifying the importance of culture and religious belief to historiography. The introduction includes a review of the most important secondary literature about Dawson that will be used throughout the work. The main text of the dissertation develops chronologically, and is in eight parts, each part representing a distinct phase of Dawson's life. Part Chie (1889-1914) examines the formative years of his childhood, his education, his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, and how his experiences formed the basis for his opinions about history, religion, and world around him. Part Two (1915-1929) explores the schools of thought that shaped Dawson’s ideas as a young scholar, and the ideas expressed in his first two books. Part Three (1930-1934) represents the most active time of Dawson's career, and the period during which he became a widely read Catholic intellectual and historian of Europe. Part Four (1935-1939) examines Dawson's commentaries on European political movements during the 1930ร. Part Five (1940-1945) discusses Dawson's role as the vice-president of die wartime ecumenical movement 'The Sword of the Spirit', as well as his book written at the height of the Movement's success. Part Six (1946-1952) covers Dawson's ideas from his Gifford Lectures, and his interest in American Catholicism. Part Seven (1953-1962) covers Dawson's vision for American Catholics and education, and his position at Harvard University, which he held from 1958 until a series of strokes forced him to retire, and return to England in 1962. Part Eight (1963-1970) briefly discussed the events of the last years of his life. The conclusion serves as a summary of his contribution and legacy as a major twentieth-century intellectual
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