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We are living in a world misled. For those who flatter themselves that all is really well in the 1950's, and getting better by the moment, the following book has nothing to say. Yet on the evidence it is beginning--though just barely--to be realized that we are in sober fact living in a world misled. But the prognosis is dreaded and the cure more so by those who in one way or another, in halfway or full parasitism, are living by the infection. It therefore becomes imperative under the accepted code of chicanery to deny the diagnosis even while the disease rages and is spreading. The fact of the cancerous misgovernment of the world--which today has reached the stage of metastasis--is still of course hotly contested, especially by humanity's present set of harrowingly incompetent or outright criminal leaders and their dupes or cohorts, including the word-mills of dishonesty and their millers--the corrupters of the mass mind so proud of their power. We are told--again by the same crowd--that we are witnessing an age of great "progress." But what we see surrounding us and advancing like the army of rats on the storied lighthouse is degeneracy, flip or wordy cowardice, helpless or hypocritical platitudes, and the rotting corpse of integrity. Where is that which can save us? The few still sane enough to sense the direction of the danger cry. But they will have only history's echoes for their answers--for it has all been said, though decreasingly repeated, with the march of "progress." Progress means progression--that is all. It is a gigantic Question-Begger. "Toward What" and "For What" are the twins our kind of progress, like some plague, has murdered in their baby beds, as those questions slept in almost every modern heart. How revealingly few have dared openly, much less officially, to ask those questions. And how vast the number of those that lie drugged with some euphoric suggestion that they need not be asked. Yet the echoes of the answers are what we still have, like the fabled whispers of long since dead conversation resounded by ghosts--the ghosts of integrity that haunt the modern conscience. For it is VALUES that have been lost, and standards, principally of honesty, that have to be regained--of trustworthiness... From General Editor's Preface (C.A. Muses) to Arthur Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation" (1958).

	THE MENEC ALIGNMENT Many stones at Camac are aligned in rows. One of the best examples is that of Le Menec, over 2/3 mi (1 km) long. It consists of 11 parallel lines of stones, graded in size, and culminating in an oval ring.
JADEITE AXES The Tumulus de Saint-Michel contained  a chamber in which a number of finely polished axes, including some made of jadeite, were found. These appear to have been made purely for ceremonial use because they are in excellent condition.

THE STANDING STONES Stones used for megalithic monuments are invariably "natural" -they are not cut or shaped, but deliberately selected for their size, shape, and type. There are almost 3,000 remaining standing stones at Carnac.

MEGALITHS AND MOUNDS

The largest class of megalith found at Carnac is the single standing stone. The Grand Menhir Brise weighs more than 330 tons (300 tonnes). It may well have been a menhir that broke up in transit and never reached its destination. Suggestions that its purpose was as part of a lunar foresight for worship or as an astronomical calendar may well be correct.
 

CLUNY WAS FOUNDED by William of Aquitaine in AD 909, in the Burgundy region of France. Although under the direct control of the pope, Cluny was in effect a self-governing institution and spawned about 2,000 daughter monasteries all over Europe. It was the focus for the donation of property and privileges by a wide variety of people, and, as a result, it acquired large amounts of wealth and vast estates. These estates required efficient management and administration to ensure that the large numbers of monks and servants could be supported from the supplies they produced. It soon became one of the largest, wealthiest, and most powerful monasteries in medieval Europe, a fact that is reflected in the remaining buildings.   THE MEDIEVAL ABBEY Archaeological study of monasteries such as Cluny can provide a great deal of information about the lifestyle of their inhabitants. It can also tell us about the domestic arrangements of these great economic institutions and the activities and landscapes that were necessary to support them. However, very little survives of the vast complex of medieval, buildings that formerly existed at Cluny.  Parts of the west tower and the great  west doorway remain, but the most impressive portion, and the one that gives the best impression of what the abbey  was like during the Middle Ages, is the south transept. Professor Kenneth Conant, has painstakingly reconstructed, on paper and in models, the original arrangements within the abbey, using surviving architectural fragments, documentary sources, and selective excavation. He has, for example, been able to show that the second monastic church  at Cluny, which stood between 1010 and 1050, was retained in part within the later cloister when the new abbey church was built to the north after 1088.   THE ABBEY RUINS Little of the original abbey remains after most of it was destroyed in the French Revolution. However, the impressive Romanesque south transept tower still exists, and soars above the later buildings.

CARVED CAPITAL This capital of a pillar from the church at Cluny dates from the 12th century. The architecture of the abbey was famed for its extravagance, and the decoration often depicted detailed scenes from the Bible and everyday life. The capital would have been painted in bright colors.

MONASTIC LIFE

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Above is the enchanting Pilgrimage Church (Wallfahrtskirche) in Heiligelinde, Ermland area of the former East Prussia. The Pilgrimage Church, constructed 1687-1693, in its present form was designed in the graceful southern Baroque style by the 17th century Tyrolese architect Georg Ertly. In the Baroque interior, all the dreamlike frescos and the very beautiful organ blend themselves harmoniously in the overall view.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Zürich also has a botanical garden, natural history museum, and an industrial arts museum. The city is the site of the University of Zürich (1833), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zürich (1855), and a conservatory of music (1876). In the suburb of Küsnacht is the C. G. Jung Institute of Zürich (1948).