The Sentinel, v.137 no. 03, 1945

              Whenever you see this sign on the
window of a grocery or delicatessen,
you are sure of the best food products.
That's What Everybody Says
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Look for
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It stands for the finest, fattest, and
most delicious Smoked Lox.
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that you could readily transfer the
truths of the laboratory into the life
of men. There was a sure confidence
that the forces of life could be
balanced like the cylinders on a motor
block. The ledger sheet of life would
somehow always be balanced, like
those totals in the annual reports of
big corporations.
Political scientists believed that once
the legal terms were found, the polit-ical
units of our world could be neatly
integrated into a balanced superna-tional
structure where authority came
from the top down and renewed from
the bottom up. Beautiful diagrams
were presented showing how the ex-ecutive,
symbolized by a black circle,
was held in beautiful equipoise by the
squares and quadrangles of the as-semblies,
councils and committees. I
imagine that is why Ely Culbertson,
the bridge expert, became interested
in world organization. He thought ex-ca-
pertness in both fields consisted in
one matching king with king, or club with
ri- club, or running the proper hierarchy
n g of succession in suits. This strategy of
um economics and politics became like
'he Hardy's "Immanent Will"; a fore-om
sightless mechanizer wove his endless
hip artistries into circumstance. And this
his Tower of Babel crumbled, too, not be-gin
cause the builders excited the wrath
rse of God, but because they failed to
nd take a sufficient account of the soul,
ide the spirit and the heart of man. They
ces knew the tensile strength of steel to
of a very fine tolerance point, but they
'pe did not know the bending point of the
be - human will or breaking point of the
om human heart.
ne. And it often happens in these
al- pendulous swings of human history,
is during these periodic migrations from
;he infra-red to ultraviolet in the social
spectrum, that the extreme in one di-ras
rection to the momentum of the reac-n
' s tion to the extreme swing in the
am opposite direction. The brittle deter-iah
minism, the soulless and destructive
nal mechanism "of the nineteenth century
ed : was in some respects, at least, the
rd, rebound from the mystic, ingrowing,
ith narcissistic, navel-gazing of the gener-my
ations before. The nirvana of Bud-eir
dhaism which lulled millions of Japanese
all into a lotus-like stupor of self-nega-bo
r tion helped to deliver the people of
all Japan into the power of the ruthless
em minority of war lords. The other world-ly,
self-denying, turn-the-other-cheek
a emphasis of Pauline Chritianity un-nal
doubtedly helped to blind the Western
ob- world to the menace of Fascism and
lu- Nazism.
Arthur Koestler, one of the provo
tive writers of our time, wrote in o
of the small quality magazines, "Ho
zon," that "the two figures standi
at opposite ends of our social spectr
are the 'commisar' and the 'yogi." T
Commisar believes In change fr
without by a revolution in owners
and production. He believes that t
end justifies every means used to atti
it. He, also, believes that the unive
is a kind of very large clockwork a
that logical reasoning is the only gui
to its operation. While Koestler pla
the commisar at the infra-red end
the spectrum, he puts the yogi, a ty
of mystic, at the ultraviolet end 1
cause the yogi believes in changes fr
within by personal spiritual discipli
The yogi believes that the end is
ways unpredictable and that logic
too coarse an instrument to reveal I
truth.
There has been, since history w
recorded, a periodic migration of me
minds from one end of the spectr
to the other. The prophet Jeremi
expresses such a turn from the exter
to the internal when he prophesi
"Behold the days come, saith the Lo
when I will make a new covenant w
the house of Israel . . . I will put
law in their inward parts and In th
heart will I write it . . . and they sh
teach no more every man his neighl
saying, 'Know the Lord'; for they sh
all know me from the least of th
unto the greatest of them."
The nineteenth century brought
general displacement in the exter
or mechanical approach to the pr
lems of men. The Industrial Revo
tion, the first brilliant achieveme:
of science in biology and physics, 1
advance of political democracy a
public education all conspired to crel
a belief that man could create a heav
on earth by the proper use of
reasoning power and his techniqu
All the primal jungle instincts woi
be drained out of him; all his fei
and superstitions would be siphon
out of the skies; and a clean, efficie
bright universe would be created
clean, well-fed, orderly inhabitants.
was the age of the blueprint and t
model experiments. There was
tremendous faith that once you h
the plans and cut your dies for t
machine tools you could manufactt
happy people of the assembly lii
There was an almost dogmatic bel
From The Pulpit
ARE WE TO BE INTROVERTS OR EXTROVERTS?
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NOTE
Due to unfortunate technical
circumstances last week, part
of Rabbi Ralph Simon's article
was omitted. We extend our
editorial regrets.