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ascribing the work to an unknown Jewish author of the third century B.C. (Robin Lane
Fox, Pagans and Christians, p. 322.)
142. G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw In America, (originally published 1922), Da Capo Press,
New York, 1968, p. 105.
143. Edwin O. Reischauer, The Japanese, pp. 154-155.
144. Peter Tasker, The Japanese: A Major Exploration of Modern Japan, Truman Talley
Books, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1988, pp. 88-92.  Shotaro Ishinomori, Japan, Inc.: An
Introduction to Japanese Economics,  Betsey Scheiner, trans., University of California
Press, Berkeley, 1988, pp. 284-286.    For insights into the philosophy behind this zeal,
see Michio Morishima, Why Has Japan 'Succeeded'?  Western technology and the
Japanese Ethos, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1982, (paperback edition) p.
117.
145. Leonard A. Sagan, "Family Ties: The Real Reason People Are Living Longer,"  The
Sciences March/April, 1988, p. 22.
146. David McFarland, ed., The Oxford Companion to Animal Behavior, pp. 479-480.
Joseph Altman, Organic Foundations of Animal Behavior, p. 425.
147. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "Memes Vs. Genes: Notes From the Culture Wars," in The
Reality Club, John Brockman, p. 117.  For the fraction of a second of light an eye can
discern as a discrete flicker, see J.A. Deutch and D. Deutch, Physiological Psychology, p.
350.
148. A few rare athletes can actually glean a message from a mere hundredth of a second
of a ball's trajectory.  Baseball player Ted Williams at the age of 50 demonstrated that he
could register exactly where the seams were on the ball as it smacked into his bat at
eighty miles an hour.  Williams smeared pine tar on the bat's barrel and called out the part
of the ball he'd hit.  A sample call: "one quarter of an inch above the seam."  When the
ball was checked to see where the tar had left its mark, Williams was right five out of
seven times.  (Dr. Arthur Seiderman and Steven Schneider, The Athletic Eye, Hearst
Books, New York, 1983, pp. 17-18, 91.)
149. "In these coffee houses you could borrow money, lend it, invest it, or spend it."  In fact,
one coffee house owner actually began selling insurance to his merchant-capitalist
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