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REACTOR SALES: SHORTCUT
TO NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE?
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Recent nuclear power deals may herald
the beginnings of a worldwide rush to
join the Nuclear Club (see •also " World–
watch," p. 4).
'~FACING
REALITY"
IN EAST ASIA
5
Phi lippine President Ferdinand Marcos'
visit with
Mao ~ highlighted
China's grow–
ing influence among the Third World
nations in East Asia.
THE MISSING DIMENSION
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IN SEX, PART IV
The Editor-in-Chiefs newly revised book
reveals that 23 to 26 is not always the
best age for marriage.
THE WORLD IN TRANSITION
7
Stanley R. Rader gives an "In Brief"
account of rapidly changing foreign
po1icy, among Third World nations in
Asia, Africa, and the Mideast.
WHO DISCOVERED
AMERICA FIRST?
8
Exciting new discoveries point to the
inescapable conclusion that Mediterra–
nean peoples discovered and settled in
America centurias before
1492!
AND NOW•• •HOMOSEXUALS
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ALLOWED TO WED
Clergyme.n defy the Bil:íle when they
officiate at " weddings" between two
people of the same sex.
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FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES ONLY?
Garner Ted Armstrong ','speaks out"
about the insane proliferation of nuclear
p!)wer plants.
LOOKING AHEAD
14
TO EUROPE'S FUTURE
While following
President Ford's trip to
Brussels, Garner Ted Armstrong inter–
viewed at length Prime Minister Leo
Tindemans of ,Belgium.
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THI RDOTS Df
AMIRICAN SUCCISS
·
by
Jeff Calkins
With the passing of America's 199th
birthday and with preparetions baing
made for the tomiflg
b,icent~nnoal
cele–
bretions, one largely overiooked fact is
that the United
S
tates is the world'
s
oldes1 surviving republic and ona
of
this
planet's oldeS1 continuing govemments.
Even more remarkable than tha politi·
• cal stability ol tha American rapublic is
its unpr8((8dentad economic success.
Americens enfoy. on a mass seale.
ma~
terial well-being undreamed
of
even by
the royalty of bygone days.
Obviously, somet hing. somewhera.
went right..
Bñtiáh inteltectuals in the ninet"nth
century olten debated the causes of'the
American success. Libarais argued that
the American experiment had sue–
ceedad bacause
of
its democretic struc–
ture of government . Conservstives
countorad that the American sucoess
was
due to an accident
of
geography
and natural resources. which they callad
··propítiouseircuMstances.
··
Two largaly overiooka¡j lae1ors -
both found in the Bil¡le - indicate that
both sidas were right.
l . Propltious Clrcumstances
Geography and natural resourcas
havo played an immense pan in
Am~r·
ica's suécess story. The
U~S.
has been
politically buHered by
two
oceans and
has hence been free from the threat of
any great nation's army poised within
easy marching distance of itsborders.
American larmland is among the
rich–
est i n the world, and the climate favors
raising crops on a mass basis.
" We ••• find ourselves in the
peace–
ful possession ol the tairest ponion
of
the eanh. as regards l enility of soil. ex·
tant ol territory and salubrity of cli·
mate . • . notad Abraham lincoln. but
this "lairest ponion of the aanh" was
not the result of "propitious circum·
stances, .. but rather divina providence.
Essentially. the majority ol the Ameri·
can paople are descendants lrom the
ancient Hebrew nation
of
Israel. We in.
heritad the bountiful land of the United
States as a result
of
the promises God
mada ' to the patriarch Abreham. (A
fuller explanation can ba lound in the
Ambassador College booklet.
The
United $tates and British Common–
wulth
in
Prophecy.)
lnterestingly, Amaricans have histori·
cally comparad themselves w ith the an·
cient Israelitas. Ona
sida
of Thomas
Jefferson·s proposed seallor the United
Statas piC1ured the children of Israel in
tha wildemess. led· by a cloud by day
and a pillar of tire by night. In
1
789,
Yale President Ezra Stiles callecj the
newly formad United States "God's
American Israel. ··
The
earfy Puritans. of couraa, saw
themselves &s Israelitas coming into the
promised land , with the Atlantic Ocean
baing the Red Sea. Governor John Win–
throp sew the New England colonies as
a "city set on a hill, .. and Wonthrop
himsell was later comparad to Moses in
a eulogy by Cotton Mather.
The ralationshop batween
the
ancient
Israel itas and the Americans is more
than metaphorical. lt is ancestral. The
American
paopla
are not blessed for
their own righteousness, but for Abra·
ham
·a.
The geographic and natural fac·
tors in the aquation were Gocfs doing.
11.
Checking Human Natura
But extemal surroundings do not ex·
ptaín the whole of the American
suc·
cess.
Traes. minarais, even good farm
land. aren' t necessarily valuable in
thamselves~
They must ba developed.
To the degrea thet the Amaricen
strtJC–
.tura of govemment encouraged that de·
velopment, it is responsible.
The
success
of Amarica's political
structure lies in the Constitution· s ae–
ceptance ol the biblical view ol human
natura. The lounding lathers· par· •
ception
of
the natura of man seems to
come right out of Jeramiah: "The hean
is daceitful above all things, and desper–
ately wockad: who can know it?" (Jere·
miah 17:9.)
•
The · designers of the U.S. Constitu·
tion took
a
most distrustful view of
human natura. They balíeved that ir>–
stitutions must check men·s selfish im·
pulses. The genius of the document is
that h takes human nature i.nto account
and seeks to hamess it.
• ··rhe
lie.:y
end destructiva passions of
war reign in the human hean with much
more powetful sway than the mild and
beneficien! santiments of paaee; end to
modal our political
s~stems
upon specu· •
lations of lasting tranquility
is
to calcu–
late on the weaker springs of the human
character:· wrote Alexander Hamilton
in Federalist Paper Number
34.
The condemnation
of
human natura
is eveñ stronger in Federalist Paper
Number 61 .
"Ambition must btt madtt
to countttrBct ambition
...
~
lt may ba
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reflection
on
human nature that sucn
devices should be necessary to control
the ebuses of govemment. But what is
govemment itllelf but the greates1 of all
relleC1ions on human natura.
lf
men
were angels no government would be
nece-ry."
Men. of
course.
aran' t angels. The
longevity of the American govemment
derives largely from the series of checks
and balances which S1em' trom a realiza·
tion ol this fact.
The result hes not only been political
stability. but also the maintenanoe
of
the civi( and economic libenies whích
have allowed
the transtormation of
abundant natural rasources into the·
híghes1 degree of mus material
pros·
parity the wor1d has ever known. o
WEEK ENDINO JULY 12. 197S