This contribution discusses Ralph Lee’s volume Symbolic Interpretations in Ethiopic and Early Syriac Literature, particular his proposal about what were the channels of cultural transmission between Christian literatures which could justify consistent number parallels found two poetical liturgical traditions. model used to explain these is proved questionable, an alternative hypothesis offered:...

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It is a piece of idle senthentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, or prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application oflegal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in th...

Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) was an influential figure in the history of psychiatry as a clinical science. This paper, after briefly presenting his biography, discusses the conceptual foundations of his concept of mental illness and follows this line of thought through to late 20th-century "Neo-Kraepelinianism," including recent criticism, particularly of the nosological dichotomy of endogenous p...

The discovery of insulin has entirely changed the prognosis of diabetes in childhood. Whereas in pre-insulin days the outlook was almost hopeless, the patient seldom lived longer than two years, the prognosis now appears to be very favourable. Growth is perfectly normal as are physical andc mental activity, and there does not appear to be any increased susceptibility to infections although the ...

The rapidity of environmental degradation and the recent popularity of the concept of sustainability have made clear how successful traditional societies have been in coexisting with nature. Architects, in responding to this rising awareness, are searching for models of the reinterpreta­ tion of tradition, seeking examples and guidelines. Three practitioners who anticipated the need for a reexa...

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