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 PASSING COMMENTviews of the editors

Guild’s first thirty

In August, the American Newspaper Guild will reach the thirtieth anniversary. of its beginnings those hurriedly called meetings of newspapermen in Cleveland, New York, and elsewhere that responded to the cry of the NRA Blue Eagle and to Heywood Broun’s summons to “hacks and white-collar slaves.” Before the end of 1933, a national union was born, and four years later it undertook to organize all newspaper white-collar workers.

Those first meetings were marked by a debate that has recurred continually over the thirty years. One way of stating the main question is, simply: Should there be something special about a newspaperman’s union? Certainly, it should work to improve wages and working conditions. But what else? Should it be part of the labor movement? Should it be a political force? Should it judge professional practices?

The Guild’s achievements

Most of these questions are answered formally in the Guild constitution. These stated objectives provide a convenient way to summarize the Guild’s progress:

to advance the economic interests of its mem- bers. Clearly the Guild has worked hardest to fulfill this objective —first winning recognition as a bargain- ing agent, later gaining improvements in pay, fringe benefits, hours, and tenure. These gains, it should be said, have been won not only for members but for “free riders” and for employees of non-Guild papers.

The most favorable appraisals credit Guild efforts with changing the character of the American news- paperman from gypsy to craftsman. As it was put by Judith Crist of the New York Herald Tribune in a 1959 issue of the Columbia University Forum: “...it took a union to make a profession out of newspaper reporting simply because the union achieved the eco- nomic security that frees a man to work in a truly professional manner in any field.” At the least, the Guild has put publisher-employee relations on a more businesslike basis. Most newspapermen will not regard this change as a loss.

To gain its economic goals, the Guild has resorted to conventional weapons of industrial warfare, includ- ing the strike. (The latest began in Honolulu on June 21.) The use of the strike has opened the Guild to three criticisms: first, that Guild strikes have killed newspapers; second, that the need for support has made the Guild a captive of other newspaper unions; third, that journalists on strike neglect a peculiar duty to keep open the flow of the news. The first has the appearance of truth only in a few cases of moribund newspapers; the two others will be discussed below.

…to guarantee, so far as it is able, constant honesty in the news. Until recently, the Guild paid little atten- tion to this objective. Yet, informally, it has been the focus of controversy since 1934, To be specific: Can Guild members write news—especially labor news—objectively? Despite all accusations, the answer of course has been demonstrated time and again: An Guild member will report, write, or edit honestly. To claim

honest, intelligent newspaperman or not otherwise is to say that Guild membership is auto- matically equivalent to dishonesty——a position that even anti-union publishers must reject.

...to raise the standards of journalism and ethics of the industry. The Guild adopted a contentious code of ethics irf 1934, but since has largely ignored this objective, as many members believe it should. Instead, the influence of the Guild on standards has been what- ever its bargaining has done to enable talent to enter or stay in the newspaper business. In addition, its barriers to arbitrary discharges and penalties have helped to create a spirit of professional independence

Against such gains must be weighed an accretion of those members that let the Guild buoy them up through time-serving careers. A union

the complacent

must bargain for all of its members, and this has been the price of impartiality to foster friendly cooperation with all other workers. This phrase, in practice, has been a euphe- mism for the mutual-assistance agreements that have grown between the Guild and other newspaper unions -~ most notably, their support of each other’s strikes in such places as Minneapolis, Detroit, Cleve- land, and New York. This condition of Guild mem- bership chafes many: yet it is an alliance the Guild worked years to achieve. .to promote industrial unionism in the news- paper industry. Thus far, the Guild has not taken this phrase literally. True industrial unionism in the news- 2 Columbia Journalism Review


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 firmness of course, audacity and resolution, is not a personal question: it is a question of the class which is capable of showing courage and decision. That class is the proletariat, and the proletariat alone. Courage and resolution, firmness of course and power, mean nothing else than the dictatorship of the proletariat and of the poorest peasants.

Just what would such a dictatorship mean? Simply that the opposition of counter-revolutionary Kornilovism would be broken, and the democratization of the army re-established and perfected. Of the soldiers, 99 per cent would be enthusiastic participants in such a dictatorship two days after its establishment. The dictatorship would give the land to the peasants and full power to the local peasant committees. How can one in his senses doubt the fact that the peasants would support a dictatorship of the proletariat? That which the Social-Revolutionist, Pyeshekhonov, simply promised, "the opposition of the capitalists is broken: (the exact words of Pyeshekhonov in his celebrated speech before the Congress of Soviets) would be really accomplished by this dictatorship, would be translated into reality, without in any way pushing aside the already developing democratic organizations for the control of production, of the food supply, of administration, etc. On the contrary, a dictatorship of the proletariat would support and strengthen these organizations, brushing aside all obstacles to their work. Only this dictatorship of the proletariat and poorest peasants is capable of destroying the opposition of the capitalists, of actively displaying marvels of courage and stability of power, of securing a triumphant and unlimited, truly heroic support of the masses, both in the army and among the peasants.

Power to the Soviets—that alone can assure the further development of the Revolution, in accordance with the experience and decisions of the majority of the masses.

Power to the Soviets signifies the complete handing over of the government and the control of its functions to the workers and peasants, whom no one would dare oppose; a government of the Soviets, which would quickly learn by experience and its own practice to distribute land, products and bread.

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 Of this number 528 persons have emigrated to other districts, and 975 others have immigrated, so that the total number living in the Ken is 160,163. No information is given about age, nor, so far as I am aware, have the statistics of births and deaths been published.

Public instruction is carried on under the supervision of a council of officers chosen by the governor. There is one middle school with an English and a Chinese department, and 212 lower schools with 217 teachers attended by 3,950 boys and 642 girls.

The annual revenue of the Ken amounts to 236,027 yen, derived from the following sources:—

The expenditure is not given in detail: the total amount is set down at 34,255 koku of rice and 31,563 yen in money. Besides this there is the Government grant of 29,238 yen distributed as follows:—

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yen 29,238

The officials number 69; one of the 5th class, one of the 7th, 48 from the 8th to the 15th, and 19 below the 15th.

Statistics of the produce of the Ken and given under no less than 75 heads, of which I can here only cite some of the more important figures. The number of young mulberry trees is a million and a half. The quantity of leaf 69,046,668 lbs. The weight of Cocoons 1,800,000 lbs. Of Silk 88,176 lbs. Of Pierced Cocoons 231,400 lbs. The Silk-worms-eggs numbered 199,981 Cards; last year there were upwards of 230,000.

Of Silk piece goods there were manufactured 14,000 double pieces (hiki) the length of the single piece (tan) being 28$1⁄2$ feet.

Of lacquer gum there was collected 3,608 lbs. and of lacquer ware there was wade 110 horse-loads (one horse-load is 40 kuamme=333$1⁄3$ lbs.) The lacquer ware is all made for the Yokohama market.

The Ken produces 346,775 lbs. of Tobacco, chiefly exported to Echigo, its flavour being stronger than is liked in Tôkiô.

Saké is an important article of export; 13,751 koku are brewed, most of which is sent to Sakata.

The mountain sides are well wooded, the quantity of timber felled is given at 46,880 loads of Cedar and 16,489 loads of Pine.

Pen-making is one of the industries of the district the number manufactured is returned as 3,102,500 pairs. Of candles there were made 62,598 lbs. and of pomatum 130,670 lbs. Indigo was produced to the extent of 188,808 lbs. and the flax crop yielded 579,891 lbs.

The prices quoted in the table of statistics sufficiently illustrate the difficulty of communication. In the outlying valley of Oguni the value of best rice is stated to

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Rh tion of Eye Witnees in uch a Matter. For my Part I do not at all doubt of this wonderful Generation; for though I have not beheld it with my own Eyes, yet I have met with many honet and reaonable Men in my Native Country, who have aured me, that they have found Pieces of old, rotten, driven Wood in the Sea, upon which there hang Mucles, in ome of which they aw young Birds, ome others in full Perfection and Shape. From whence I conclude, that thoe Fowls pring from no other Seed, than ome clammy and vicous Matter floating in the Sea, precipitated upon Pieces of old rotten Wood, as aforeaid; of which there is firt formed a Mucle, and then a little Worm in the Mucle Shell; from whence at lat a Bird proceeds. And although this may eem to exceed the ordinary Bounds et by Nature in the Procreation of other Birds; yet it is oberved and confeed, that the Sea produces many trange and urprizing Things, and even living Animals, which we cannot affirm to have had being from the firt Creation; but that by vertue of the primitive Bleing God gave the Sea to produce; it may yet bring forth many uncommon and wonderful Things, as for Example, many Sorts of Sea Inects, viz. Crabs and the like. And thus the Sea or Water in general may with Reaon be tiled Pater & Mater rerum, i.e. the common Parent of Things. Nature eems to delight ometimes in forming out of the Wayy Things: Thus we ee divers Inects formed out of the with their Hands. They are not o large as a Duck; nor is their Fleh o well tated, bein more trainy or oily. The leer ort Rh


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COLUMBUS
THE human mind is affected with a singular disability to get a sense of an historical event without a gigantic figure in the foreground overtopping all his fellows. As surely as God liveth, if one hundred congenital idiots were set adrift in a scow to get rid of them, and, borne by favoring currents into eyeshot of an unknown continent, should simultaneously shout, "Land ho!" instantly drowning in their own drool, we should have one of them figuring in history ever thereafter with a growing glory as an illustrious discoverer of his time. I do not say that Columbus was a navigator and discoverer of that kind, nor that he did anything of that kind in that way; the parallel is perfect only in what history has done to Columbus; and some seventy millions of Americans are authenticating the imposture all they know how. In this whole black business hardly one element of falsehood is lacking.

Columbus was not a learned man, but an


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 I had got my two dishes of milk coffee (which by the bye is excellently good for a consumption, but you must boil the milk and coffee together—otherwise 'tis only coffee and milk)—and as it was no more than eight in the morning, and the boat did not go off till noon, I had time to see enough of Lyons to tire the patience of all the friends I had in the world with it. I will take a walk to the cathedral, said I, looking at my list, and see the wonderful mechanism of this great clock of Lippius of Basil, in the first place

Now, of all things in the world, I understand the least of mechanismI have neither genius, or taste, or fancy—and have a brain so entirely unapt for


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N.B.—6 ft.=1 ken, 60 ken=1 cho, 36 cho=1 ri, 1 ri=4,320 yards or 2$5⁄11$ of an English mile.

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 be yen 1.33 per koku, while at Yonezawa distant only 10 ri it is yen 2.24. In the carrying traffic over the mountains bulls are used instead of packhorses. The cheapest communication is in winter when the snow allows the passage of little sleds drawn by men.

In conclusion I must apolozizeapologize [sic] for the crude form in which, fearing to trespass too much on the time of the meeting, I have presented these statistics.

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 every thing of that kind, that I solemnly declare I was never yet able to comprehend the principles of motion of a squirrel cage, or a common knife-grinder's wheel—tho' I have many an hour of my life look'd up with great devotion at the one—and stood by with as much patience as any christian ever could do, at the other

I'll go see the surprising movements of this great clock, said I, the very first thing I do: and then I will pay a visit to the great library of the Jesuists, and procure, if possible, a sight of the thirty volumes of the general history of China, wrote (not in the Tartarian) but in the Chinese language, and in the Chinese character too.


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 * The Excavations (1914), a book by Howard Crosby Butler
 * Excavation (1919), a book by Allen Boyer McDaniel
 * Excavations (1926), an essay collection by Carl Van Vechten
 * Excavations (1990s), a booklet by the United States Department of Labor, republished several times

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 Now I almost know as little of the Chinese language, as I do of the mechanism of Lippius's clock-work; so, why these should have jostled themselves into the two first articles of my listI leave to the curious as a problem of Nature. I own it looks like one of her ladyship's obliquities; and they who court her, are interested in finding out her humour as much as I.

When these curiosities are seen, quoth I, half addressing myself to my valet de place, who stood behind me—'twill be no hurt if WE go to the church of St. Ireneus, and see the pillar to which Christ was tied—and after that, the house where Pontius Pilate lived—'Twas at


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Author:Minamoto no Shigeyuki

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 * Shigeyukishū (重之集)
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 paper business would mean a merger of all unions into a United Newspaper Workers of America. There are recurring proposals for such a merger; they do not appear to be near realization. The Guild’s role has been the trying one of organizing the unorganized. It has had both success and disappointment. It is the only one of many attempts to establish a newspaper- man’s union that achieved permanence. It claims more than 31,000 members, among them more than a third of all newspaper editorial workers in the United States. It has gained contracts with major Canadian newspapers, the wire services, the news magazines, and miscellaneous publications and news agencies,

But it has had many frustrations. Few citadels have fallen in recent years, and Guild locals have declined or passed out of existence in Portland, Milwaukee, Baltimore, and El Paso. Moreover, the largest papers in Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Kan- sas City, and major Southern cities have never yielded.

The present condition

Such, in shorthand, have been the gains of the first thirty years, offered as the background against which to measure where the Guild is going today.

Two of the three oldest locals of the Guild were involved in long newspaper blackouts last winter. In Cleveland, the Guild itself was on strike, mainly on the issue of organizing commercial departments. In New York, the Guild, after a brief strike of its own, collaborated in the printers’ strike and revised its newly won contracts to assist in the general settlement.

Clearly, neither local participated with unanimity or high morale. A members’ revolt in Cleveland un- dercut the negotiators. Few members in New York wholeheartedly favored the printers’ tactics or de- mands; a faction wanted to withdraw support. Mean- while, the local went heavily into debt, for members had refused earlier to build a reserve fund. Both cases revealed members’ reluctance to fight on secondary issues — in one case, an extension of jurisdiction; in the other a payment for past and future support.

To help determine whether such reluctance was the product of peculiar stresses or symptoms of a general malaise, the Review solicited its correspondents’ ap- praisals of Guild locals or organizing efforts in other cities. Here, in summary, are the responses:

The San Francisco-Oakland local, third largest in the Guild, is in a “period of complacency,” the corre- spondent writes. The winning of a Guild shop on the San Francisco papers and, in 1959, at the Oakland Tribune, and the raising of wages to adequate levels have fulfilled basic Guild goals.

The large Detroit local represents workers on the Free Press and on labor publications. But the local suffered a blow in 1960 when its founding unit, at the Detroit Times, dissolved with the closing of the paper. The Detroit News has remained unorganized. The Review correspondent believes that the Guild has kept conditions from deteriorating despite the surplus of newspapermen in the labor market. He adds, though, that the Guild does not seem powerful enough now to break new ground.

Reports came from smaller cities with locals com- posed entirely of editorial employees — the type an editorial in the Guild newspaper called “vulnerable chinks in the Guild’s armor.”

One of these, in Richmond, is nearly a quarter of a century old. The correspondent, a member, reports that enthusiasm is low, that dues go unpaid, and that young hands on the papers refuse to join. He continues: "…there is little strength in the local; it depends on persuasion, Exempt employees and non- members can put out the papers any day the Guild walks out; the Guild knows it. Guildsmen would like to be out of the union, but they haven’t enough trust in the philanthropy of management.”

A member in Providence, which has had a local for only four years, reports in a different tenor: “Guild influence here has been growing as a result of successful grievance actions. The Guild has been uniformly beneficial in economic terms: regular raises, paid overtime, holiday pay, and night differential — none of which we had before the Guild. If there has been any loss, it is in the spirit of do-or-die journalism and in management's willingness to incur expenses—for example, in paying overtime to follow a story.”

A third editorial-only Guild is in Madison, Wiscon- sin, where one paper is organized and the other has had no Guild since 1940. The correspondent, not a member, writes: “Newsmen on the Capital Times think well of the Guild. They work for a strong-willed publisher, and it allows them to stand up to him They view the Guild as honest and well-run.”

There were also reports from papers the Guild has never penetrated. One such is the Long Island tabloid, Newsday, where wages have stayed competitive with Guild levels in New York City. The situation in Louis- ville is similar: “The working climate, the attitude of management, and the wages are too good for the Summer, 1963 3


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Author:Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu

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 * Gosen Wakashū (as compiler)
 * Yoshinobushū (能宣集)
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Author:Fujiwara no Yoshitaka

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 * Yoshitaka-shū
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 The exhilerating juice of the grape spread mirth and cheerfulness around, the spacious cavern re-echoed their jocund songs, the tale of their exploits gave variety to the entertainment, and it seemed as if the sting of conscience had entirely lost, with them, its pungent point. The cloth was at length removed, the beldam, who had been waiting at table, began now likewise to eat, and the robbers made themselves ready to leave their subterraneous haunt.

"To day," said the Captain to me, before they departed, "thou shalt stay at home, but to-morrow thou art to be of our party, and thy deportment must decide whether we can enlist thee in our noble company, or shall knock thy brains out."

Then the whole crew sallied forth through the iron door, without giving me time to answer, and left me alone with the old woman, who was very assiduous to amuse me,


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210 USPQ v. Shoppers Drug Mart, Inc., 434 F.Supp. 697, 193 USPQ 165 (E.D. Mich. 1976), case involved a much different set of circumstances. Thus, in reaching my decision, the court has not given any weight to plaintiff’s arguments of either constructive or actual use of the word “Mother’s” prior to that of the defendants.

The court also did not have to reach one of the defendants’ principal arguments. In light of the plaintiff’s registration for “Mother’s Pizza Parlour,” and faced with the assertion of rights ordinarily accompanying registration, the defendants argued that a junior user who is the first to adopt a disputed mark in a limited geographical area is exclusively entitled to exploit the mark in that limited area, relying on Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf, 240 US. 403 (1916), and United Drug Co. v. Rectanus Co., 248 U.S. 90 (1918). Because no importance was given to plaintiff’s registration and, thus, no priority of use accorded to plaintiff, defendants’ argument was not material and did not have to be reached. In any case, however, the continuing importance of the Hanover-United Drug exception is open to much question since the passage of the Lanham Act, especially 15 U.S.C. 1072. See Dawn Donut Co. v. Hart’s Food Stores, Inc., 267 F.2d 358, 362-64, 121 USPQ 430, 432-435 (2d Cir. 1959). But see Value House v. Phillips Mercantile Co., 523 F.2d 424, 187 USPQ 657 (10th Cir. 1975).

The defendants’ motion for a preliminary injunction is denied.

The foregoing opinion constitutes the findings of fact and conclusions of law of this court, in accordance with Rule 52(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

The plaintiff is directed to prepare an order in accordance with this decision and submit it to the court, with notice to the defendants.

So ordered.

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218 Action by The Urantia Foundation, against Robert Burton, for copyright infringement and unfair competition, in which defendant counterclaims for declaration of copyright invalidity. On cross-motions for partial summary judgment. Plaintiff’s motion granted.

Miles, Chief Judge.

This is an action for copyright infringement and unfair competition brought by the Plaintiff, the Urantia Foundation, under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1338 against the defendant, Robert Burton, claiming that he has infringed its copyright on The Urantia Book by reproducing sections of the book and distributing them to public officials in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, and by having the book translated into Spanish for publication. The defendant admits the actions alleged by the plaintiff and as a defense challenges the validity of the plaintiff’s copyright. By counterclaim the defendant asks for declaratory judgment declaring the plaintiff’s copyright void. Both parties have moved for summary judgment as to the question of copyright infringement. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(c) and (d), and by agreement of the parties, the questions of unfair competition and damages have not been considered in deciding these motions. Those matters will be decided by agreement of the parties or by later proceedings in this Court. The motions for summary judgment were decided under the copyright law as it existed prior to enactment of the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. Sec. 101 et seq., which became effective on January 1, 1978.

The facts are essentially undisputed. The Urantia Book came into existence between 1926 and 1935 and was originally in the possession of Dr. William S. Sadler, Sr. of Chicago. The book, which consists of 196 separate papers, was read to a group of

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 The nine programs managed by the Instrumentation Division are discussed in the following paragraphs. Where appropriate, individual projects within each program are discussed.

Program I -- Bomb Preparation

 * Agency:
 * Los Alamos Laboratory

 * Operations: The bomb for ABLE was prepared at Kwajalein and loaded onto the B-29 drop aircraft on Kwajalein airfield. The bomb for BAKER was prepared on Kwajalein and on medium landing ship LSM-60 in Bikini Lagoon. It was placed in a waterproof caisson and lowered 90 feet (27 meters) under the LSM.

 * Staffing: Seventy Los Alamos Laboratory employees worked on this program. The radioactivity of the nuclear components of the bombs presented a very low risk of exposure. Personnel in this program were not required for reentry operations so they should not have been exposed to significant amounts of radiation. According to exposure records only three individuals were badged (see Table 6).

Program II -- Blast, Pressure, and Shock

 * Agencies: Los Alamos Laboratory
 * Navy Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd)
 * Navy Bureau of Ships (BuShips)
 * Army Air Force
 * Navy Air Group
 * Air Blast Group (013A)

 * Operations: This program had 28 projects, some with several subprojects (see Appendix C). Except for Project II-12, which measured fireball growth using cameras, all these projects were associated with pressure, blast, and shock measurements. A variety of self-recording airblast gauges were placed on Bikini islands, in the lagoon, on target ships, and on aircraft aloft in the area above the target area. Condenser gauges were dropped from two B-29 aircraft just before each detonation and they transmitted readings to recorders in the B-29 aircraft. Water-shock gauges were also used. All B-29, F-13, and B-17 aircraft participating in either shot carried instrumentation also.

 * Staffing: Personnel from the Air Blast Group, Los Alamos Laboratory Group, Electronics Group, and the BuOrd Instrumentation Group worked on projects in Program II. Although there were probably more, 51 personnel have been identified with this project from existing records, 35 of whom were badged. The highest exposure of these 35 was 0.99 R for an individual working on project II-18 who got all of his exposure the first week in August.

 * Placement of gauges in aircraft, target ships, islands, etc. should have provided little or no exposure to project personnel. Removal of gauges after ABLE should have been relatively easy as radioactivity was limited to a few target ships and decayed rapidly. BAKER, however, contaminated islands due north of the detonation, the lagoon, and most of the target

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714 cannot tell. A faint glimmering light immunines the backward portion of the web. Clouds and thick darkness hide the other end.

Our long voyage of discovery is over and our bark hard drooped her weary sails in port at last. Once more we take the road to Nemi.

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92 like Aristophanes, he uses well-known names from time to time for the persons of his drama, anything like what we call personality was probably far from his thoughts. "Lucian," says Ranke, "spoke after the manner of ancient comedy,—things true, not of this or that individual, but of bodies, of communities, of society in general."

With this reservation the reader will perhaps judge more fairly the broad farce—for this is what it really is—of the Dialogue which follows.

Jupiter. Now, you arrange the benches, and get the place ready for the company. You bring out the goods, and set them in a row; but trim them up a little first, and make them look their best, to attract as many customers as possible. You, Mercury, must put up the lots, and bid all comers welcome to the sale.—Gentlemen, we are here going to offer you philosophical systems of all kinds, and of the most varied and ingenious description. If any gentleman happens to be short of ready money, he can give his security for the amount, and pay next year.

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Rh Jup. Begin the sale, then.

Merc. Whom shall we put up first?

Jup.This fellow with the long hair,—the Ionian. He's rather an imposing personage.

Merc. You, Pythagoras! step out, and show yourself to the company.

Jup. Put him up.

Merc. Gentlemen, we here offer you a professor of the very best and most select description—who buys? Who wants to be a cut above the rest of the world? Who wants to understand the harmonies of the universe? and to live two lives?

Customer (turning the Philosopher round and examining him). He's not bad to look at. What does he know best?


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210 USPQ who gathered at Dr. Sadler’s home for that purpose on many occasions over that nine year period. The book at the time was in typed manuscript form. Dr. Sadler explained to his guests that the book had been written by one of his patients while in an unconscious or semi-conscious state and that the patient claimed to have no memory of having written the book. Dr. Sadler then had the handwritten manuscript transcribed into typed form. The defendant was one of the persons who came to these meetings it he never knew the identity of the patient/author. The plaintiff claims that everyone who knew the identity of the patient took a vow never to reveal that identity, and further states that the patient is now dead. Dr. Sadler died in 1969.

The Urantia Book is a religious-philosophical text which purports to give a blueprint for a better world. Dr. Sadler claimed, and both parties to this action apparently believe, that the book was written down as the result of divine or spiritual inspiration. As a result, in both written and oral arguments, there has been some discussion as to whether Dr. Sadler’s patient was the author of the book or was merely a conduit for some spiritual author. Legally, however, the source of the patient’s inspiration is irrelevant. No one contends that the Urantia Book was not original and therefore not copyrightable. The patient, as author, had an immediate, common law copyright, or right of first publication, in the book. Nimmer on Copyright, Sec. 2.02 and 2.01(B) (1979); Schwartz v. Broadcast Music Inc., 180 F.Supp. 322, 124 USPQ 34 (D.C.N.Y. 1960). He was free to transfer or assign this right to whomever he saw fit, and the transferee would then succeed to his common law rights, including the right to claim a statutory copyright under Title 17 of the United States Code, 17 U.S.C. Sec. 9. Nimmer on Copyrights Sec. 5.01(b) (1979); Remick Music Corp. v. Interstate Hotel Co., 58 F.Supp. 523, 63 USPQ 327 (D.C. Neb. 1945), affirmed 157 F.2d 744, 71 USPQ 138, cert. denied 329 U.S. 809, 72 USPQ 529.

In January, 1950, the Urantia Foundation was created by an instrument of trust with its primary estate consisting of over two thousand printing plates which had been prepared from the manuscript of the Urantia Book to be used in reproducing the book. Apparently these plates had been paid for by contributions from some or all of the people present at the 1926 through 1935 meetings. Five of those people were named as trustees and officers of the Foundation. According to the plaintiff the original handwritten manuscript was destroyed sometime before the plates were made and Dr. Sadler’s typewritten manuscript was destroyed after the plates were made. Significantly, the headquarters of the Foundation were originally located at Dr. Sadler’s home and he was intimately involved in the activities of the Foundation.

Under paragraph 3.3 of the document of trust one of the purposes of the Foundation, and one of the duties of the trustees was: "to retain absolute and unconditional control of all plates and other media for the printing and reproduction of The Urantia Book and any translation thereof * * *."

The Urantia Foundation subsequently published The Urantia Book in October, 1955 with proper notice of copyright and subsequently deposited copies of the book and registered its copyright claim with the Copyright Office, as required by federal law, 17 U.S.C. former sections 10, 11, and 13. On January 3, 1956 the Copyright Office issued a Certificate of Registration (A 216389) for The Urantia Book naming the Urantia Foundation as both copyright claimant and author of the book. The information on the Certificate is obtained from the claimant, so it is apparent that the plaintiff named itself as author even though it, of course, knew that it was not the author.

Sometime in the late 1960’s1960s [sic] or early 1970’s1970s [sic] the defendant became disenchanted with the way the Foundation was handling the dissemination of the ideas expressed in the Urantia Book. He first requested permission to copy and distribute certain sections of the book, but was turned down by the officers of the Foundation. He nevertheless undertook such copying and distribution and admits that he did so in order to test the validity of the plaintiff’s copyright. The plaintiff obliged him by bringing this action for copyright infringement.

The plaintiff’s Certificate of Registration has been entered into evidence and constitutes prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein. Monogram Models Inc. v. Industro Motive Corp., 448 F.2d 282, 171 USPQ 266 (6th Cir. 1971). The ultimate fact embodied in a certificate of registration is that the claimant has a valid claim to a copyright in the work named. Thus, the certificate constitutes prima facie evidence of the validity of the claimant’s copyright. Blumcraft of Pittsburgh v. Newman Brothers, Inc., 373 F.2d 905, 153 USPQ 91 (6th Cir. 1967); Wihtol v. Wells, 231 F.2d

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98 of Alkes, which alo abound here, are more eatable than the large ones. Beides this vat Number of Sea Fowls, there is yet one of a maller Size, by the Natives called Tungoviareck, which for its beautiful Feathers Sake, ought not to be forgot: It has the Size and Shape of a Lark.

Wild Geee or grey Geee keep to the Northward of Greenland; they are of Shape like other Geee, omewhat maller, with grey Feathers. They take their Flight from other Southern Climates, over to Greenland every Spring, for to breed their young ones; which when grown and able to fly, they carry along with them and return to the more Southern and milder Climate, where they pas the

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94 Merc. Arithmetic, astronomy, prognostics, geometry, music, and conjuring—you've a first-rate soothsayer before you.

Cust. May one ask him a few questions?

Merc. Certainly—(aside) and much good may the answers do you.

Cust. What country do you come from?

Pythagoras. Samos.

Cust. Where were you educated?

Pyth. In Egypt, among the wise men there.

Cust. Suppose I buy you, now—what will you teach me?

Pyth. I will teach you nothing—only recall things to your memory.

Cust. How will you do that?

Pyth. First, I will clean out your mind, and wash out all the rubbish.

Cust. Well, suppose that done, how do you proceed to refresh the memory?

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Rh Cust. Why, look ye, my good fellow, you'd best go teach the dumb son of Crœsus! I want to talk, and not be a dummy. Well,—but after this silence and these five years?

Pyth. You shall learn music and geometry.

Cust. A queer idea, that one must be a fiddler before one can be a wise man!

Pyth. Then you shall learn the science of numbers.

Cust. Thank you, but I know how to count already.

Pyth. How do you count?

Cust. One, two, three, four—

Pyth. Ha! what you call four is ten, and the perfect triangle, and the great oath by which we swear.

Cust. Now, so help me the great Ten and Four, I never heard more divine or more wonderful words!

Pyth. And afterwards, stranger, you shall learn about Earth, and Air, and Water, and Fire,—what is their action, and what their form, and what their motion.

Cust. What! have Fire, Air, or Water bodily shape?

Pyth. Surely they have; else, without form and shape, how could they move?—Besides, you shall learn that the Deity consists in Number, Mind, and Harmony.

Cust. What you say is really wonderful!

Pyth. Besides what I have just told you, you shall


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220 550, 109 USPQ 200 (7th Cir. 1956). In a case such as this, where copying is admitted, the introduction of a certificate of registration by the plaintiff will support a judgment in favor of the plaintiff unless the defendant presents evidence that the claim of copyright is invalid. In other words, the burden of going forward is on the defendant.

Nimmer states that the better view, under the former act, was that the certificate only constitutes prima facie evidence of the specific facts stated in the certificate, and not of the overall validity of the copyright which depends on a number of factors, such as originality and publication with notice, which are not specifically stated in the certificate. Nimmer on Copyright, Section 12.11(B) (1979). However, as Nimmer recognizes, the prevailing view, by a wide margin, was that the certificate was also prima facie evidence of validity. See Flick-Reedy Corp. v. Hydro-Line Mfg. Co., 351 F.2d 546, 146 USPQ 694 (7th Cir. 1965) and Tennessee Fabricating Co. v. Moultrie Mfg. Co., 421 F.2d 279, 164 USPQ 481 (5th Cir. 1970) plus numerous District Court cases cited in Nimmer, supra, footnote 21.

It is interesting to note that the new statute, 17 U.S.C.A. Section 410(c), provides expressly that the certificate will constitute prima facie evidence of validity, in line with the prevailing view. In the historical note to this section the House Committee on the Judiciary, House Report 94-1476, says this about the problem: "The principle that a certificate represents prima facie evidence of copyright validity has been established in a long line of court decisions, and it is a sound one. It is true that, unlike a patent claim, a claim to copyright is not examined for basic validity before a certificate is issued. On the other hand, endowing a copyright claimant who has obtained a certificate with a rebuttable presumption of the validity of the copyright does not deprive the defendant in an infringement suit of any rights; it merely orders the burdens of proof. The plaintiff should not ordinarily be forced in the first instance to prove all of the multitude of facts that underline the validity of the copyright unless the defendant, by effectively challenging them, shifts the burden of doing so to the plaintiff."

The Court takes this to mean that only those specific facts which are effectively challenged by the defendant need be proven by the plaintiff possessing a certificate of registration. All other facts upon which the validity of a copyright depends retain their prima facie value. Thus, if the defendant only presents evidence challenging originality, the burden of proof shifts only as to originality.

The problem in this case is slightly different in that it involves the effect of a deliberate misstatement in the certificate and the effect this has on the prima facie value of the certificate as a whole. The defendant argues that by showing that the plaintiff is not the author of the Urantia Book as stated in the Certificate of Registration, something which the plaintiff concedes, he has destroyed the prima facie value of the Certificate and has placed the burden of proving the validity of its claim on the plaintiff. However, similar considerations to those discussed above argue against the view espoused by the defendant.

The rule has been stated that the introduction of evidence showing the inaccuracy of some fact or facts stated in the certificate places the burden on the plaintiff to overcome this evidence. Gardenia Flowers Inc. v. Joseph Markovits, Inc., 280 F.Supp. 776, 157 USPQ 685 (D.C.N.Y. 1968); Van Cleef & Arpels Inc. v. Schecter, 308 F.Supp. 674, 164 USPQ 540 (D.C.N.Y. 1969). However, it is also true that courts generally seek to preserve copyrights rather than invalidate them on the basis of minor defects in the registration certificates. Huk-A-Poo Sportswear Inc. v. Little Lisa Ltd., 74 F.R.D. 621, 195 USPQ 763 (D.C.N.Y. 1977); United States v. Backer, 134 F.2d 533, 57 USPQ 133 (2d Cir. 1943). A misstatement in a Certificate of Registration, unless accompanied by fraud, will not invalidate the copyright or render the certificate incapable of supporting an action for infringement. Baldwin Cooke Co. v. Keith Clark Inc., 383 F.Supp. 650, 183 USPQ 209 (N.D. Ill. 1974). This is particularly true when the mistake in the certificate did not affect the decision of the copyright office in issuing the certificate. Thomas Wilson & Co. v. Irving J. Dorfman Co., 433 F.2d 409, 167 USPQ 417 (2d Cir. 1970) cert. denied 401 U.S. 977, 169 USPQ 65 (1971). Under 17 U.S.C. former section 209 the identity of the author of a work does not have to be disclosed in registering a copyright. It follows that a misstatement as to authorship, unless made for some fraudulent purpose will not invalidate an otherwise valid copyright. [sic] (see Thomas Wilson, supra). That is, the copyright remains valid as long as the claimant has a legitimate claim of copyright, regardless of who is the actual author.

It is obvious that such a rule is consistent with the majority view regarding the prima facie value of the certificate outlined above,

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PASSING COMMENT union to make any inroads. The management is much more lenient on such matters as sick leave and leaves of absence than one could expect with a Guild."

These reports present a picture of diversity—some enthusiasm and credit to the Guild for past achievements, but also cases of deteriorating or dead locals and low morale. It scems fair to say that the palsy of New York and Cleveland is not unique.

'The future One of the sharpest recent criticisms of the Guild was an article in The Reporter, during the New York newspaper strike, by Milton Bracker, a member from The New York Times. Bracker pleaded for independence of response in labor crises. Only journalists, he said, were interested in maintaining the flow of the news; commercial employees in the Guild cared not His solution: the agency shop, in which journalists would pay dues to the Guild for its services, but would not be bound by the obligations of membership.

In effect, Bracker asked for the dismantling of the Guild on the editorial side, his assumption being that the Guild had no role left in serving interests closest to the hearts of journalists. It can in fact hardly be denied that newsmen must look closely to find anything of professional interest in Guild activities. No journalist has headed the national Guild since 1951, and its public spokesmen are usually men who are or who have become trade-union professionals.

The rumblings in New York, Cleveland, and elsewhere may show simply that the Guild —like many another union—has made its members so well off that it has endangered its own existence. Yet this hardly seems possible when many newspapermen are not well-paid and Guild negotiators are still winning substantial gains. Is there not another possibility that with the growth of professional spirit and practices among newspapermen there has developed a schism? That the issues of unionism, the primary concern of the Guild secretariat, are merely irritating to journalists who are members?

This irritation probably runs deeper than discomfiture at not working during a strike. Most members will support strikes, given the urgency of the cause. What they will not support is conflict over issues that appear to them obscure or irrelevant

What is relevant? Many members, no doubt, would be happy to have the Guild confine itself—even more strictly than it does now —to business concerns. Yet such concentration could well lead to further deterioration, for it involves those very union issues that members now decline to pay for or to support with good will.

The Review would be sorry to see such a decline in the Guild, for it has served and continues to serve a useful "yardstick" function for the whole newspaper business. But the Review editors doubt that cither the agency shop or pure trade-unionism will be sufficient either to allow the Guild to continue to fulfill this limited function or to fulfill other functions that could be expected of such an organization.

In other words, there is something special about the Guild. It is the only coherent national body that includes so large a share of shirt-sleeve journalists. It is the only such body that maintains a considerable degree of independence of the corporate powers of journalism. It is the only national organization that has a history of deep-seated bias in favor of the individual journalist.

Given such a framework, it would seem natural to recommend that the Guild establish a professional subdivision—a national subsidiary for the journalists in its ranks that would concern itself with guaranteeing professional standards. Already, in fact, there have been flickers of interest in the subject. A contract clause in Denver protects reviewers from tampering. Kenosha, Wisconsin, now has a "news integrity" contract clause that purports to guarantee that no member can-be ordered to distort facts. It came before the national convention in July for adoption as part of the union-wide bargaining program.

Yet it must be admitted that the overall outlook is poor for the growth of the Guild into such a professionally oriented organization as one finds in, say, the countries of the British Commonwealth. The character of the Guild leadership, the long affiliation with the labor movement, the policy of not discriminating between journalist and non-journalist members, and

not least—the feeling of newspaper managements that news standards are their business alone—all these will work against any change in the Guild's emphases or interests.

Still, not to explore the possibilities of such change, in the Review's opinion, is to ignore the unique qualities the Guild could bring to standard-raising. The Review puts forward these observations, not as a nostrum for the Guild, but merely to offer a reminder that in thirty years the Guild has become part and parcel of American journalism. It has made contributions to those thirty years; the question now is what it will do with the next thirty. 4 Columbia Journalism Review


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Rh The Manner of Hunting the has been treated of above in the fifth Chapter; but there we took no Notice of their Bows and Arrows, which they make Ue of in the killing thoe Deer. Their Bow is of an ordinary Make, commonly made of Fir Tree, which in Norway is called Tenal, and on the Back trengthened with Strings made of Sinews of Animals, twited like Thread: The Bow String is made of a good trong Strap of Seal Skin, or of everal Sinews twited together; the Bow is a good Fathom long. The Head of the Arrow is armed with Iron, or a harp pointe Bone, with one or more Hooks, that it may keep Hold, when hoot Birds with are at the Head covered with one or more Pieces of Bone blunt at the End, that they may kill the Fowl, without tearing the Fleh. The Sea Fowls are not hot with Arrows, but with Darts, headed with Bones or Iron, which they throw very dexterouly, and with o teady a Hand at a great Ditance, that no Body can hit urer with a Gun. Rh


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102 They are more frequently employed at Sea than on Shore; and I confes, they urpas therein mot other Nations; for their Way of taking Whales, Seals and other Sea Animals is by far the mot kilfull and mot eay and handy.

When they go a Whale catching, they put on their bet Gear or Apparel, as if they were going to a fancying that if they did not come cleanly and neatly dreed, the Whale, who can't bear loven and dirty Habits, would hun them and fly from them. This is the Manner of their Expedition: About 50 Perons, Men and Women, et out together in one of the large Boats, called Kone Boat; the Women carry along with them their ewing Tackles, coniting of Needles and Thread, for to ew and mend their Hubands Spring Coats, or Jackets, if they houls be torn or pierced through, as alo to mend the Boat, in cafe it hould receive any Damage; the Men go in earch of the Whale, and when they have found him, they trike him with their Har-


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Rh Harpoons, to which are fatened Lines or Straps two or three Fathom long, made of Seal Skin, at the End of which they tie a Bag of a whole Seal Skin, fill'd with Air, like a Bladder; to the End, that the Whale, when he finds himelf wounded, and runs away with the Harpoon, may the ooner be tired, the hindering him from keeping long under Water. When he grows tired, and loes Strength, they attack him again with their Spears and Lances, till he is killed, and then they put on their Spring Coats, made of dreed Seal Skin, all of one Piece, with Boots, Gloves, and Caps, ewed and laced o tight together that no Water can penetrate them. In this Garb they jump into the Sea, and begin to lice the Fat of him all round the Body, even under the Water: For in thee Coats they cannot ink, as they are always full of Air; o that they can, like the Seal, tand upright in the Sea: Nay they are ometimes o daring, that they will get upon the Whale's Back, while there is yet Life in him, to make an End of him, and cut away his Fat. Rh


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persons. At the same time, leaders were cautioned to regain the support of the rank and file; to this end some were sent to Moscow for training in Soviet trade union methods. In addition, many specially selected shop stewards were given training. In late 1973, the government was stepping up activity at the lowest union echelons where the URO could exert greatest influence, while gradually returning control of the unions to the national level.

5. Social security and public welfare

All social security and public welfare activities are administered by the state. The social security system, referred to as "national insurance," is built on an extensive prewar base and covers over 97% of the population. Prior to 1968, social security benefits were used to offer incentives as well as to provide security to workers who conformed to the patterns imposed by the government. The political bias of the system was reflected in higher benefits offered to "exemplary" workers and the reduction or withholding of benefits from "unreliable elements." Legislation passed in 1958, and reaffirmed in 1966, provided for the lowering or suspension of allowances to one-time entrepreneurs, representatives of the former political and social order, and other persons considered anti-Communist. Such discriminatory practices were largely eliminated during 1968, and by 1969 a nationwide, computer-based system of administering wage and social security programs had been initiated on a uniform basis.

National insurance is of two types: health insurance, administered through the Central Council of Trade Unions, and pension insurance, managed by the National Social Security Office. The Central Council of Trade Unions and the regional trade union councils also administer family allowances, supervise the use of health resorts, and participate in the distribution of pension insurance payments on the local level. Coverage under the system applies automatically to all persons gainfully employed in the "socialized" economy and their dependents.

Receipts and expenditures for all social insurance are included in the Czech and Slovak state budgets and two national committee budgets. For health insurance, the state contributes 85-90% of the cost and the employer the remainder; for pensions, the state assumes full responsibility. Total outlays for social insurance benefits have steadily increased, with expenditures in 1971 reaching roughly one-fifth of the total state and national committee budgets.

Health insurance coverage includes hospitalization, drugs, doctors' services, maternity and funeral benefits, and in some instances special cash allowances. Sick-pay is granted to a worker temporarily unable to work due to sickness or injury. Depending on the length of employment, benefits range from 50-70% of net wages for the first 3 days and from 60-90% thereafter, for up to 2 years if recovery is expected. A system of charging nominal fees for medicine was introduced in 1964 as part of an effort to increase revenues. In 1966 free health care was extended for the first time to private farmers, thus making the entire population eligible for this service. Health expenditures in 1971 amounted to over 15½ billion korunas, or roughly 7% of total national income.

Pension insurance provides money for the aged and retired, for the disabled, and for widows and orphans. Pension benefits are graded by category of employment and number of years of employment. The system has been revised considerably, with eight modifications to the law having been enacted since 1954. In an effort to persuade older workers to postpone retirement, the period of employment necessary for claiming a full retirement pension has been extended from 20 to 25 years. Those who are not qualified for a pension by 25 years of employment must work until age 65 to receive a full annuity. The retirement wage for women, formerly 55, now is based on a sliding scale according to the number of children. The retirement age for childless women is set at 57, and that for women with children is 53-57 depending upon the number of offspring; men may retire at 60 to at 55-58 if engaged in unhealthy or onerous work. Workers permanently disabled are eligible immediately for a pension equivalent to 60% of their earnings, plus a 1% increase for each year of employment between 26-35 years. Persons with partial disabilities receive a reduced pension.

A change in the pension law, in 1970, increased the minimum monthly pension to 550 korunas for single persons and 850 korunas for married couples, nearly triple the average payments in 1948. To be eligible, however, the pensioner must seek additional employment, subject to his physical and mental capabilities and local working conditions. The additional annual expenditure for pensions is expected to exceed 1.1 billion korunas. To help being pension benefits in Slovakia up to the level of the Czech Lands, the government earmarked 40% of the additional funds for Slovakia. By 1971, the average worker's old age pension in Slovakia, 909 korunas per month, was slightly higher than the average of 885 korunas per month in the Czech Lands. Approximately one-fourth of the 3,400,000 pensioners in 1971 lived in Slovakia.

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104 They go much the ame Way to work in killing of Seals, except that the Harpoon is leer, to which is fatened a Line of ix or even Fathom long, at the End of which is a Bladder or Bag made of a mall  filled with Air, to keep the Seal, when he is wounded, from diving under the Water, and being lot again. In the Northern Parts, where the Sea is frozen over in the Winter, they ue other Means in catching of Seals. They firt look out for Holes, which the Seals themelves make with their Claws about the Bignes of a [sic]Halfpeny, that they may fetch their Breath; after they have found any Hole, they eat themelves near it upon a Chair, made for this Purpoe; and as oon as they perceive the Seal coming up to the Hole and put his Snout into it for ome Air, they immediately trike him with a mall Harpoon, which they have ready in their Hand, to which Harpoon is fatened a Strap a Fathom long, which they hold with the other Hand. After he is truck, and cannot ecape, they cut the Hole o


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210 USPQ in that each of the facts stated therein are to be considered separately. Only if the misstatement was made with a fraudulent purpose, or if the Copyright Office might not have issued the certificate if the true facts had been revealed (in which case a fraudulent purpose in not revealing those facts may be inferred) will a proven misstatement cancel the entire prima facie effect of the certificate. Otherwise the burden of proof shifts to the plaintiff only as to those specific facts which are shown to be untrue.

The most that the defendant has done in showing that the plaintiff was not the actual author of the book is to place a burden on the plaintiff to show the basis of its claim of copyright by some means other than actual authorship. The fact that the plaintiff listed itself as the author of the book on its application for copyright is not sufficient to completely destroy the presumption in favor of a registered copyright. Evidence presented by the defendant indicated that the plaintiff’s motive in naming itself as author was to preserve the anonymity of the real author. No evidence of any intended fraud has been presented. If the plaintiff had simply listed the work as anonymous, the Copyright Office would have nevertheless issued the certificate. Thus, the plaintiff’s misstatement, while not the preferred method of preserving anonymity, did not affect the decision of the Copyright Office, and was not intended to defraud anybody. Once the plaintiff overcomes the evidence showing the inaccuracy in its Certificate of Registration it is once more entitled to a presumption in favor of the validity of its copyright.

Since the plaintiff is not the author of The Urantia Book, it must demonstrate its claim of copyright as an assignee of the rights of the author. 17 U.S.C. former section 9; Nimmer on Copyrights Section 5.01(A) (1979); Epoch Producing Corp. v. Killiam Shows, Inc., 522 F.2d 737, 187 USPQ 270 (2d Cir. 1975); Borden v. General Motors Corp., 28 F.Supp. 330, 42 USPQ 117 (D.C.N.Y. 1939); Van Cleef, supra. The plaintiff claims that the right to claim statutory copyright was transferred orally from the author to Dr. Sadler, and that Dr. Sadler then transferred that right to the Plaintiff through the document of trust by which it was created. The very facts which the defendant has used to show that the plaintiff was not the author have also established that Dr. Sadler was the assignee of the rights of the author of The Urantia Book. That Dr. Sadler had possession of the original manuscript and exercised complete control over it until the formation of the Foundation in 1950 is evidence that the patient did transfer his common law rights to Dr. Sadler. Callaghan v. Myers, 128 U.S. 617 (1888); Houghton Mifflin Co. v. Stackpole Sons, 104 F.2d 306, 42 USPQ 96 (2d Cir. 1939) cert denied 308 U.S. 597, 43 USPQ 521; Freudenthal v. Hebrew Publishing Co., 44 F.Supp. 754, 53 USPQ 466 (D.C.N.Y. 1942).

The defendant argues strenuously that the plaintiff has unique knowledge concerning the circumstances of the transfer of the original handwritten manuscript from the patient/author to Dr. Sadler and that it should be required to divulge this information or lose its copyright. The defendant does not claim that this information would reveal any improprieties but only claims that it could conceivably do so. The defendant asserts that it is just as likely that there was no transfer of the common law copyright as that there was, and that Dr. Sadler’s mere possession of the manuscript is not enough to infer such a transfer. This position, however, ignores the circumstances of Dr. Sadler’s possession of the manuscript. Significant in this regard are the facts that Dr. Sadler introduced the manuscript to the public through the meetings at his home; that the existence of the patient/author was revealed by Dr. Sadler; that Dr. Sadler exercised control over the manuscript for almost twenty-five years; that this control was never challenged by anyone; and that the real author has never revealed himself or claimed any interest in the book.

The plaintiff has also established that Dr. Sadler transferred the common law copyright to the Foundation. The words of the trust document could hardly be clearer in granting the Foundation exclusive control over the Urantia Book, including the right to claim a copyright. That document coupled with the Foundation’s possession of the printing plates and Dr. Sadler’s intimate connection with, and acquiescence in the activities of the Foundation, both before and after it obtained the statutory copyright, all lead to the conclusion that there was such a transfer.

Thus, the plaintiff has met the burden imposed upon it by the defendant’s evidence regarding authorship and has overcome that evidence, which is all that it is required to do. Therefore its registered copyright is entitled to a presumption of validity without some further showing by the defendant. The burden of controverting the plaintiff’s claimed chain of title in the copyright is squarely

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198 rollicking mirth and fun. To this poet, who had received the talent of song as a gift from heaven, (1712-79) forms a complete contrast. After producing a countless number of tasteless, soulless rhymes, saturated with classical learning, he became professor of rhetoric in the University of Copenhagen, and at the same time censor of all Danish poetical compositions that were produced by the press. But his was the kind of "poetry" that was demanded by the taste of that age.

The strong puritanic tendency of the age was peculiarly favorable for the composition of religious songs, but the poems produced were mostly of a very inferior quality. The songs of, a truly remarkable poet (1694-1764), constitute a solitary exception. They give evidence of genuine poetical talents, and are characterized by deep feeling, at times they even rise to the solemn, sublime heights of Kingo. Through his whole life Brorson had to struggle with severe afflictions, which contributed materially to his natural disposition for melancholy musings, and which his deep piety and firm faith alone enabled him to bear. This sadness is distinctly stamped on the uniformly deep elegiac character of his psalms. He belongs decidedly to the puritanic school, and this circumstance imparts a somewhat polemic character to his psalms, but as a rule, warm, humane feeling pervades them. The sentiment bursts forth so fresh and vivid, and in a key so deep, that it touches our inmost soul. Brorson to this very day justly occupies the front rank among the poets of the Danish church, a place he at once attained in the estimation of the public, and which, moreover, received a public recognition in the fact that it was on account of his psalms that he was promoted to a high position in the church. He died as bishop in Ribe.

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715-717] against Constantinople, took the fortress of the Slavs, which commanded the passes of the Taurus, and returned to Epiphania for the winter; and in 716 he sent his lieutenant Sulaimān in advance, intending to follow with a larger army, while Omar was appointed to command the fleet. Sulaimān penetrated without opposition to Amorium, which, as it had then no garrison and was on bad terms with Leo because of his rejection of Theodosius, he expected easily to take. The Arabs moreover knew Leo to be a likely candidate for the crown and hoped to use him as they had used Sapor: accordingly, as Amorium did not immediately fall, they proclaimed him emperor, and the citizens were induced by the hope of escaping capture to do the same. Sulaimān having promised that, if Leo came to discuss terms of peace, he would raise the siege, Leo came with 300 men, and the Arabs surrounded him to prevent his escape; but Leo, who as a native of a town which had only been in Roman hands for ten years since 640 (he was probably born a subject of the Caliph), was well acquainted with the Arab character and could perhaps speak Arabic, induced some officers whom he was entertaining to believe that he would go and see Maslama himself, while he conveyed a message to the citizens to hold out, and finally escaped on the pretext of a hunting expedition. Soon afterwards the Arabs became tired of lying before Amorium and forced Sulaimān to raise the siege; whereupon Leo threw 800 men into the city, removed most of the women and children, and withdrew to the mountains of Pisidia, where he was safe from attack by Maslama, who had now entered Cappadocia and, in hope of gaining Leo's support, refrained from plundering the country. To him Leo sent an envoy to say that he had wished to come and see him, but treachery had deterred him from doing so. From this envoy Maslama heard of the garrisoning of Amorium; but this made him the more desirous of securing Leo; and he promised, if he came, to make satisfactory terms of peace. Leo pretended to agree, but protracted negotiations till Maslama, unable for reasons of commissariat to remain in Anatolic territory, had reached Acroinus (Prymnessus) in the Obsequian district, and then, having previously come to an understanding with Artavazd, to whom he promised his daughter in marriage (which, as he had no son, implied an assurance of the succession), started for Constantinople, while Maslama passed into Asia, where he wintered. The fleet was however less successful, for the Romans landed in Syria and burnt Laodicea, while the Arabs had only reached Cilicia. Meanwhile Leo made his way to Nicomedia, where Theodosius' son, who had been made Augustus, and some of the chief officers of the palace, fell into his power. The Obsequians were unable to organise serious resistance, and Theodosius after consulting the Senate and the patriarch sent Germanus to Leo, and on receiving assurance of safety abdicated. Leo made a formal entry by the Golden Gate and was crowned by the patriarch (25 Mar. 717). Theodosius and his son took orders and ended their days in obscurity.


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416 them to meet at Rhodes under a certain John, who also held the offices of public logothete and deacon of St Sophia. Some of the Obsequian theme, whom it was probably desired to remove from the neighbourhood of the capital, were sent on board; and, when John gave the order to sail to Phoenix, these refused to obey, cast off allegiance to Anastasius, and killed the admiral. Most of the fleet then dispersed, but the mutineers sailed for Constantinople. On the way they landed at Adramyttium, and, not wishing to be a second time defeated by the absence of a candidate for the throne, chose a tax-collector named Theodosius, whom, though he fled to the hills to escape, they seized and proclaimed emperor. Anastasius, leaving Constantinople in a state of defence, shut himself up in Nicaea, where he could watch the disaffected theme: but the rebels rallied to their cause the whole theme with the Gotho-Greek irregulars of Bithynia, collected merchant-ships of all kinds, and advanced by land and sea to Chrysopolis (Sept.). The fighting lasted six months, after which on the imperial fleet changing its station they crossed to Thrace and were admitted by treachery through the gate of Blachernae. The houses were then pillaged, and the chief officials and the patriarch arrested and sent to Anastasius, who, thinking further resistance useless, surrendered on promise of safety and was allowed to retire as a monk to Thessalonica (5 Mar. 716).

Meanwhile the Arab preparations were going on with none to hinder. Even when the civil war was ended, there was little hope of effectual resistance from the crowned tax-gatherer and his mutinous army; and, if the Empire was to be saved, it was necessary that the government should be in the hands of a soldier. The Obsequian theme, though from its proximity to the capital it had been able to make and unmake emperors, was the smallest of the three Asiatic themes; and the other two were not likely to pay much regard to its puppet-sovereign. The larger of these, the Anatolic, was commanded by Leo of Germanicea, whose family had been removed to Mesembria in Thrace when Germanicea was abandoned. When Justinian returned, Leo met him with 500 sheep and was made a spatharius. Afterwards he was sent to urge the Alans of the Caucasus to attack the Abasgi, who were under Arab protection, and in spite of great difficulties he was successful: moreover, though he seemed to be cut off from the Empire, by his courage, presence of mind, and cunning (not always accompanied by good faith) he effected not only his own return but that of 200 stragglers from the army which had invaded Lazica. This exploit made him a marked man, and he was chosen by Anastasius for the command of the Anatolic theme: on that Emperor's overthrow both he and the Armenian Artavazd, who commanded the Armeniacs, refused to recognise Theodosius.

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 phemous security. "No array of terms," quoth he, "no array of terms can say how much at peace I am about God and about death." There certainly never was a prophet who carried things with a higher hand; he gives us less a body of dogmas than a series of proclamations by the grace of God; and language, you will observe, positively fails him to express how far he stands above the highest human doubts and trepidations.

But next in order of truths to a person's sublime conviction of himself, comes the attraction of one person for another, and all that we mean by the word love:—

The solitude of the most sublime idealist is broken in upon by other people's faces; he sees a look in their eyes that corresponds to something in his own heart; there comes a tone in their voices which convicts him of a startling weakness for his fellow-creatures. While he is hymning the ego and commercing with God and the universe, a woman goes below his window; and at the turn of her skirt, or the colour of her eyes, Icarus is recalled from heaven by the run. Love is so


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222 on the defendant, Nimmer on Copyrights Section 12.11(C) (1979), however, the defendant has not presented one fact or pointed to any circumstance which would indicate that the plaintiff does not have a legitimate claim to statutory copyright. Neither has he indicated that any information not already available to the Court would be forthcoming at trial. In fact, the defendant has stated that this is an appropriate case for summary judgment since all of the facts are presented and are undisputed. Under these circumstances, a requirement that the plaintiff make more of a showing as to the validity of its copyright than it already has would be contrary to the statutory presumption in favor of the validity of registered copyrights.

Accordingly, this Court finds (1) that the plaintiff has a valid Statutory copyright in the Urantia Book; (2) that the defendant has infringed that copyright; (3) that there are no issues of material fact; and (4) that the plaintiff is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Therefore, the plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment is hereby granted. The defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment is denied.

Appeal from Examiner of Trademarks.

Application for registration of trademarks of Drums, Ltd., Serial No. 154,111, filed Jan. 3, 1978, and 154,222, filed Jan. 4, 1978. From decision refusing registrations, applicant appeals. Affirmed.

Kera, Member.

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Rh o large, that they may get him up through it, and as oon as they have got his Head above the Ice, they can kill him with one Blow of the Fit.

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 startlingly real that it takes rank upon an equal footing of reality with the consciousness of personal existence. We are as heartily persuaded of the identity of those we love as of our own identity. And so sympathy pairs with self-assertion, the two gerents of human life on earth; and Whitman's ideal man must not only be strong, free, and self-reliant in himself, but his freedom must be bounded and his strength perfected by the most intimate, eager, and long-suffering love for others. To some extent this is taking away with the left hand what has been so generously given with the right. Morality has been ceremoniously extruded from the door only to be brought in again by the window. We are told, on one page, to do as we please; and on the next we are sharply upbraided for not having done as the author pleases. We are first assured that we are the finest fellows in the world in our own right; and then it appears that we are only fine fellows in so far as we practise a most quixotic code of morals. The disciple who saw himself in clear ether a moment before is plunged down again among the fogs and complications of duty. And this is all the more overwhelming because Whitman insists not only on love between sex and sex, and between friends of the same sex, but in the field of the less intense political sympathies; and


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106 The fourth Way is this: In the Spring, when the Seals lie upon the Ice near Holes, which they themelves make, for to get up and down; the Greenlanders cloathed with and a long Perch in their Hand, creep along upon the Ice, moving their Head forwards and backwards, and noring like a Seal, till they come o near him, that they can reach him with the Perch and trike him. A fifth Manner of catching Seals is, when in the Spring the Current makes large Holes in the Ice, the Seals flock thither in great Shoals; there the Natives watch their Opportunity to trike them with their Harpoons, and haul them upon the Ice. There is yet a ixth Way of catching Seals, when the Ice is not covered with Snow, but clear and tranparent; then the Catchers lay under their Feet Foxes or Dogs Tails, or a Piece of a Bear's Hide, to tand upon and watch the Animal, and when by his blowing and noring they find what Coure he takes, they oftly follow him and trike him. In


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 his ideal man must not only be a generous friend but a conscientious voter into the bargain.

His method somewhat lessens the difficulty. He is not, the reader will remember, to tell us how good we ought to be, but to remind us how good we are. He is to encourage us to be free and kind, by proving that we are free and kind already. He passes our corporate life under review, to show that it is upheld by the very virtues of which he makes himself the advocate. "There is no object so soft," he says somewhere in his big, plain way, "there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe." Rightly understood, it is on the softest of all objects, the sympathetic heart, that the wheel of society turns easily and securely as on a perfect axle. There is no room, of course, for doubt or discussion, about conduct, where every one is to follow the law of his being with exact compliance. Whitman hates doubt, deprecates discussion, and discourages to his utmost the craving, carping sensibilities of the conscience. We are to imitate, to use one of his absurd and happy phrases, "the satisfaction and aplomb of animals." If he preaches a sort of ranting Christianity in morals, a fit consequent to the ranting optimism of his cosmology, it is because he declares it to be the original deliverance of the human heart; or at least, for he


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 would be honestly historical in method, of the human heart as at present Christianised. His is a morality without a prohibition; his policy is one of encouragement all round. A man must be a born hero to come up to Whitman's standard in the practice of any of the positive virtues; but of a negative virtue, such as temperance or chastity, he has so little to say, that the reader need not be surprised if he drops a word or two upon the other side. He would lay down nothing that would be a clog; he would prescribe nothing that cannot be done ruddily, in a heat. The great point is to get people under way. To the faithful Whitmanite this would be justified by the belief that God made all, and that all was good; the prophet, in this doctrine, has only to cry "Tally-ho," and mankind will break into a gallop on the road to El Dorado. Perhaps, to another class of minds, it may look like the result of the somewhat cynical reflection that you will not make a kind man out of one who is unkind by any precepts under heaven; tempered by the belief that, in natural circumstances, the large majority is well disposed. Thence it would follow, that if you can only get every one to feel more warmly and act more courageously, the balance of results will be for good.

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 as a doctrine; as a picture of man's life it is incomplete and misleading, although eminently cheerful. This he is himself the first to acknowledge; for if he is prophetic in anything, it is in his noble disregard of consistency. "Do I contradict myself?" he asks somewhere; and then pat comes the answer, the best answer ever given in print, worthy of a sage, or rather of a woman: "Very well, then, I contradict myself!" with this addition, not so feminine and perhaps not altogether so satisfactory: "I am large—I contain multitudes." Life, as a matter of fact, partakes largely of the nature of tragedy. The gospel according to Whitman, even if it be not so logical, has this advantage over the gospel according to Pangloss, that it does not utterly disregard the existence of temporal evil. Whitman accepts the fact of disease and wretchedness like an honest man; and instead of trying to qualify it in the interest of his optimism, sets himself to spur people up to be helpful. He expresses a conviction, indeed, that all will be made up to the victims in the end; that "what is untried and afterward" will fail no one, not even "the old man who has lived without purpose and feels it with bitterness worse than gall." But this is not to palliate our sense of what is hard or melancholy in the present. Pangloss, smarting under one of the worst things that ever was


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Rh In fihing they make Ue of Hooks and Angles of Iron or Bones. Their Lines are made of cut very mall and thin, and at the End tacked together; and with uch Lines they will draw 100 Fihes to one, our People can catch with their  But to catch  they ue trong Lines made of  or thick

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108 And where they are left in Holes, they take them with an Intrument made for this Purpoe, viz. a Perch headed with two harp hooked Bones, or with one or two Iron Hooks.

The or  o named from the great Quantity or Roe that's found in it, as he is commonly found in hallow Water and upon the Sands, o he is catched like the Salmon with the aforementioned Intrument. There is uch abundance of thee Fihes, that, as they cannot conume them all being freh, they are obliged to dry them on the Rocks, and keep them for Winter Proviion. When catching is over, which happens in the Month of May, then the Greenlanders retire into the Bays and Creeks, where the Lods or  then takes Place. There are uch numberles Shoals of them near the Shore, that they catch them in a Kind of Sieves fatened upon long Poles, and throw them upon the Shore; they open and dry them upon the Rocks, keeping them for their


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Rh their Winter Stock. This Fih is not agreeable nor reckoned wholeome, when eaten freh; beides they have a naueous Smell, but when dried they may pas. The Natives eat them with a Bit of Fat, or ouced in Train Oil. And o of all other Sorts of Fihes, what the Greenlanders cannot conume being freh, they dry upon the Rocks in the Sun, or in the Wind, and lay them up for the Winter.

Now as to the Greenland Boats, there are two Sorts of the; the one, of which the Men alone make Ue of, is a mall Veel harp and pointed at both Ends, three Fathom in Length, and at mot but three Quarters of a Yard Broad, with a round Hole in the midt, jut large enough for a Man's Body to enter it, and it down in it; the Inide of the Boat is made of thin Rafts tack'd together with the Sinews of Animals, and the Outide is covered with Seal Skins, dreed and without Hair; no more than one can it in it, who fatens it o tights about his Wate, that no Water can


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 supposed to come from America, consoled himself with the reflection that it was the price we have to pay for cochineal. And with that murderous parody, logical optimism and the praises of the best of possible words went irrevocably out of season, and have been no more heard of in the mouths of reasonable men. Whitman spares us all allusions to the cochineal; he treats evil and sorrow in a spirit almost as of welcome; as an old sea-dog might have welcomed the sight of the enemy's topsails off the Spanish Main. There, at least, he seems to say, is something obvious to be done. I do not know many better things in literature than the brief pictures,—brief and vivid like things seen by lightning,—with which he tries to stir up the world's heart upon the side of mercy. He braces us, on the one hand, with examples of heroic duty and helpfulness; on the other, he touches us with pitiful instances of people needing help. He knows how to make the heart beat at a brave story; to inflame us with just resentment over the hunted slave; to stop our mouths for shame when he tells of the drunken prostitute. For all the afflicted, all the weak, all the wicked, a good word is said in a spirit which I can only call one of ultra-Christianity; and however wild, however contradictory, it may be in parts, this at least may be said for


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110 can penetrate it. In thee mall Boats they go to Sea, managing them with one Oar of a Fathom in Length, broad at both Ends, with which they paddle ometimes on one Side, and ometimes on the other, with o much Swiftnes, that they are aid to row 10 or 12 Norway Miles in a Day. They chiefly make Ue of them in catching of Seals and Sea Fowls, which they can approach on a udden and unawares; whereas we in our large Boats can very eldom come o near as to touch them. They do not fear venturing out to Sea in them. in the greatet Storms, becaue they wim as light upon the larget Waves as a Bird can fly; and when the Waves come upon them with all their Fury, they only turn the Side of the Boat towards them, to let them pas, without the leat Danger of being unk; though they may happen to be overet, yet they eaily raie themelves again with their Paddle; but if they are overet unawares (as it often happens) and the Boat be not cloe and tight about their Wate, they are inevitably drowned. The


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 his book, as it may be said of the Christian Gospels, that no one will read it, however respectable, but he gets a knock upon his conscience; no one however fallen, but he finds a kindly and supporting welcome.

Nor has he been content with merely blowing the trumpet for the battle of well-doing; he has given to his precepts the authority of his own brave example. Naturally a grave, believing man, with little or no sense of humour, he has succeeded as well in life as in his printed performances. The spirit that was in him has come forth most eloquently in his actions. Many who have only read his poetry have been tempted to set him down as an ass, or even as a charlatan; but I never met any one who had known him personally who did not profess a solid affection and respect for the man's character. He practises as he professes; he feels deeply that Christian love for all men, that toleration, that cheerful delight in serving others, which he often celebrates in literature with a doubtful measure of success. And perhaps, out of all his writings, the best and the most human and convincing passages are to be found in "these soil'd and creas'd little livraisons, each composed


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It may be asked, to what end doth God invite and perswade wicked men to repent and believe, if he give them not grace to believe if they will. The latter part of that question must be explained, for if this be the meaning, that many men through their own default be left of God without grace sufficient to bring them to life eternall, it is that experience it selfe confirmeth, in many Infidels who have departed this life, before they had means to come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. And if God may deny to some both meanes and grace sufficient to bring them to life eternall, he may justly with-hold the graces of his Spirit from them that be called and invited in the Ministery of the word, when grace is freely given, and both the one and other be deprived through their owne default. But if the meaning of that latter clause be, that though wicked men should seek and truly desire grace, yet God doth violently with-hold it from them, then it is most false, and implies a contradiction, as if men without the grace of God, could truly desire grace. Now the end of this invitation may be considered according to the meanes and invitation it selfe, and the will of God exacting of man what is good and acceptable, and what in duty he oweth unto God: and in this respect the salvation of the party invited is the end of the invitation: or it may be considered according to the will of God, whereby he doth not only ordaine and approve meanes to such an end, but will so bring to passe that the effect shall follow: or hereby he not only commands them to believe, and others to further their salvation, but willeth effectually to bring them to salvation and draw them unto him by the powerfull operation of his Spirit, so he doth not will the salvation of all that be called. As men are called to repent that they might live, and God doth in calling them avow it is his desire, they would repent that they might live, so the end of the invitation is


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 of a sheet or two of paper, folded small to carry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin," which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of the wounded or in the excitement of great events. They are hardly literature in the formal meaning of the word; he has left his jottings for the most part as he made them; a homely detail, a word from the lips of a dying soldier, a business memorandum, the copy of a letter-short, straightforward to the point, with none of the trappings of composition; but they breathe a profound sentiment, they give us a vivid look at one of the sides of life, and they make us acquainted with a man whom it is an honour to love.

Whitman's intense Americanism, his unlimited belief in the future of These States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war a period of great trial to his soul. The new virtue, Unionism, of which he is the sole inventor, seemed to have fallen into premature unpopularity. All that he loved, hoped, or hated, hung in the balance. And the game of war was not only momentous to him in its issues; it sublimated his spirit by its heroic displays, and tortured him intimately by the spectacle of its horrors. It was a theatre, it was a place of education, it was like a season of religious revival. He watched Lincoln going daily to his work; he


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 248 life and salvation. This is manifest, in that the Lord doth earnestly againe and againe call upon impenitent and obstinate sinners to repent and believe, protesting that he desires not their death, but rather that they should repent and live, when yet in his just and dreadfull judgement he hardeneth their hearts for their perversenesse and rebellion, that they cannot repent. But in respect of the good pleasure of God not to give them grace to repent and believe, which of his rich mercy he gives to others, who have abused what they received no lesse, perhaps more then they, the end is to manifest his justice in them, for the contempt of his grace. For what God doth command, intreat, perswade and promise, that he doth will as he doth command, intreat, perswade and promise it. But as God doth justly denie that grace to one, which of his free love he vouchsafeth unto another, so he willeth to manifest his justice in the one sort, and the riches of his grace in the other.

Lastly, Some object, that they that are invited must either have Christ, he not dying for them, or misse of Christ though they repented, whereof the former would argue mutability, that Christ should die for men, and not die for them, and the latter would be a breach of promise. A conceit not much unlike, drove Socinus to denie the prescience of God, because whencesoever this prescience commeth, it is altogether certaine, and from that is necessarily gathered an antecedent necessity of all things which are done. ''Socin. Praelect. cap.'' 8. And in the same forme and manner a man may reason from the prescience of God, if God approve the repentance and faith of them, whom he doth certainly foreknow to have no portion or benefit by the death of Christ, then either if they repent they shall have no benefit, which is contrary to his promise, or if they have benefit, then is God deceived, neither of which can be admitted without blasphemie.

And the answer to both these cavils is one, that certaine it is Christ died for them that believe, and whosoever believeth in him truly and unfainedly, shall have benefit by his death: but we need not, we cannot say, Christ died for them for whom he died not, or that God is changeable: For it is as sure and true, that they will not repent and believe for whom Christ died not. The connexion is good, if the reprobate doe repent and believe unfainedly they


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