The language of the Sorcery Act of 1971.

From the preamble:

"There is no reason why a person who uses or pretends or tries to use sorcery to do, or to try to do, evil things should not be punished just as if sorcery and the powers of sorcerers were real, since it is just as evil to do or to try to do evil things by sorcery as it would be to do ( Read more... )

"...there follow a number of related implications for future health care delivery systems.
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Second, health administrators and trainers must explicitly accept sorcery as a cause of illness. The persistence of a belief in sorcery and spirit-induced illnesses is striking. Sorcery is recognized in the statutes in the 1971 Sorcery Act but, even ( Read more... )

"Both the booklet and the film titled 'What is Wealth?' are lessons in a labor theory of value and an ethics of industry and frugality that seems drawn directly--like the stuff about money's convenience--from The Wealth of Nations. The film version opens with a staged scene of natives lined upon a beach, bowing and waving leaf wands toward the sea ( Read more... )