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I've turned my back on the world. I can't afford to doubt. I have to believe. And there isn't any other truth. (p. 168) Imagine the corner in which Dr. Armstrong and his followers found them- selves as morning approached. So massive was the commitment to their beliefs that no other truth was tolerable. Yet that set of beliefs had just taken a merciless pounding from physical reality: No saucer had landed, no spacemen had knocked, no flood had come, nothing had happened as prophesied. Since the only acceptable form of truth had been undercut by physical proof, there was but one way out of the corner for the group. It had to establish another type of proof for the validity of its beliefs: social proof. This, then, explains their sudden shift from secretive conspirators to zealous missionaries. It also explains the curious timing of the shift-precisely when a direct disconfirmation of their beliefs had rendered them least convincing to out- siders
death warrant with majestic tranquillity, and at eight on the morning of February 8, 1587, after eloquently reiterating her innocence and praying aloud for her church, for Elizabeth, for her son, and for all her enemies, mounted the platform with solemn dignity, knelt, and received the axeman's three strokes with the courage that had marked every other action of her life. Thus did Mary, Queen of Scots, exit this transient life and enter the more enduring one of legend, as her motto had prophesied: "In my end is my beginning." There seems little doubt that she would have died before her time, the politics of the day being what they were. But there seems equally little doubt that cryptology hastened her unnatural end. 5. On The Origin of a Species "DATO and I were strolling in the Supreme Pontiff's gardens at the Vatican and we went from topic to topic marveling at the ingenuity that men showed in various enterprises, till Dato gave expression to his warm