Saksagan

After a hardworking month or year, the normal thing is to think of a way to relax. Many and different the ways are but the most common one is to travel. Although the easiest...

“If I have the courage to fulfil my intention,” thought the old man, “the Suspicion will fall on the watchman first of all.”In the darkness he groped for the steps and the door and...

The banker took the sheet from the table and read:“Tomorrow at twelve o`clock midnight, I shall obtain my freedom and the right to mix with people. But before I leave this room and see...

During the last two years of his confinement the prisoner read an extraordinary amount, quite haphazard. Now he would apply himself to the natural sciences, then he would read Byron or Shakespeare. Notes used...

During the first year of imprisonment, the lawyer, as far as it was possible to judge from his short notes, suffered terribly from loneliness and boredom. From his wing day and night came the...

“If you mean it seriously,” replied the lawyer, “then I bet I`ll stay not five but fifteen.”“Fifteen! Done!” cried the banker. “Gentlemen, I stake two millions.”“Agreed. You stake two millions, I my freedom,” said...

But there is a difference not of principle but of practice between East and West, to which we have already alluded. Especially since Iconoclasm, the East dislikes solid statues. Perhaps they are too reminiscent...

Epiphanius of Salamis (d. 403) tore down a curtain in a church in Palestine because it had a picture of Christ or a saint. The Arian Philostorgius (fifth century) too was a forerunner of...

Long before the outbreak in the eighth century there were isolated cases of persons who feared the ever-growing cult of images and saw in it danger of a return to the old idolatry. We...

A curious story, that illustrates the length to which theworship of images had gone by the eighth century, is told in the “New Garden” ( Neon Paradeision — Pratum Spirituo ale) of a monk...