Bishop W. McFerrin Stowe - "The Source of Hope for Tomorrow" (December 14, 1969)
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| (choir singing faintly) | 4:18 | |
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| (choir singing) | 9:45 | |
| (organ music) | 10:21 | |
| (trumpet music) | 10:45 | |
| (choir singing) | 10:51 | |
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| - | Let us offer unto God our prayers of confession | 12:27 |
| and for pardon. | 12:33 | |
| Let us pray. | 12:36 | |
| Almighty and eternal God | 12:40 | |
| whose majesty we acknowledge, | 12:44 | |
| whose praise we sing, | 12:49 | |
| whose goodness we know, whose mercy we need. | 12:53 | |
| Hear us now in our prayer of confession | 13:01 | |
| and for pardon. | 13:06 | |
| For deceitful hearts and crooked thoughts, | 13:10 | |
| for barbed words spoken deliberately, | 13:17 | |
| for thoughtless words spoken hastily, | 13:24 | |
| for envious eyes, for ears that listen to inequity, | 13:31 | |
| for greedy hands, | 13:42 | |
| for wandering and loitering feet, | 13:47 | |
| for haughty Looks. | 13:52 | |
| Have mercy upon us, oh, God. | 13:57 | |
| In asking thy forgiveness | 14:04 | |
| we claim no right to be forgiven, | 14:07 | |
| but cast ourselves upon thy love, | 14:14 | |
| we plead no merit, no dessert. | 14:19 | |
| We plead no extenuating circumstances. | 14:26 | |
| We plead no persuasion of others. | 14:31 | |
| We see only for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 14:36 | |
| And hear these words of assurance | 14:50 | |
| of the forgiveness of sins, | 14:52 | |
| especially at Christmas time. | 14:57 | |
| The word of God to Joseph before the birth of our Lord | 15:02 | |
| was, "Thou shalt call his name Jesus, | 15:06 | |
| for he shall save his people from their sins." | 15:16 | |
| And the New Testament comment on that statement is, | 15:24 | |
| "This is a faithful saying, | 15:30 | |
| and worthy of all acceptation | 15:34 | |
| that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." | 15:39 | |
| Therefore be of good courage and let us offer onto God | 15:50 | |
| in unison a prayer of thanksgiving. | 15:57 | |
| Oh, mighty God whose mercy is over all thy works, | 16:04 | |
| we praise thee for the blessings, | 16:11 | |
| which have been brought to mankind by thy holy church | 16:14 | |
| throughout the world. | 16:19 | |
| We bless thee for the grace of thy sacraments, | 16:22 | |
| for our fellowship in Christ with thee and with one another, | 16:26 | |
| for the teaching of the scriptures | 16:33 | |
| and for the preaching of thy word, | 16:35 | |
| we thank thee for the holy example of thy saints | 16:39 | |
| in all ages, for thy servants departed this life | 16:43 | |
| in thy faith and fear, | 16:49 | |
| and for the memory and example of all that has been true | 16:53 | |
| and good in their lives. | 16:58 | |
| And we humbly beseech thee | 17:01 | |
| that we may be numbered with them | 17:04 | |
| in the great company over of the redeemed in heaven | 17:07 | |
| through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen. | 17:12 | |
| And now, as our savior Christ have taught us, | 17:18 | |
| we humbly pray. | 17:21 | |
| Our father who art in heaven, | 17:24 | |
| hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, | 17:28 | |
| thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. | 17:33 | |
| Give us this day our daily bread | 17:39 | |
| and forgive us our trespasses, | 17:43 | |
| as we forgive those who trespass against us, | 17:46 | |
| and lead us not into temptation, | 17:51 | |
| but deliver us from evil, | 17:54 | |
| for thine is the kingdom, and the power, | 17:57 | |
| and glory forever, amen. | 18:01 | |
| (organ music) | 18:09 | |
| The scripture is found in the first chapter of the gospel | 18:57 | |
| according to Saint John, beginning of the first verse. | 19:02 | |
| In the beginning was the word. | 19:12 | |
| And the word was with God, and the word was God. | 19:16 | |
| The same was in the beginning with God. | 19:24 | |
| All things were made by him | 19:28 | |
| and without him was not anything made that was made. | 19:32 | |
| In him was life, and the life was the life of man. | 19:39 | |
| And the light shineth in darkness, | 19:47 | |
| and the darkness comprehendeth it not. | 19:50 | |
| There was a man sent from God whose name was John. | 19:56 | |
| The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light | 20:04 | |
| that all men through him might believe. | 20:10 | |
| He was not that light, but was set to bear witness | 20:15 | |
| of that light. | 20:21 | |
| That was the true light, | 20:24 | |
| which lighted every man that cometh then to the world. | 20:26 | |
| He was in the world, and the world was made by him. | 20:32 | |
| And the world knew him not. | 20:41 | |
| He came unto his own and his own receiveth him not. | 20:45 | |
| But as many have received him to them gave he power | 20:53 | |
| to become the sons of God. | 20:58 | |
| Even to them that believe on his name, | 21:02 | |
| which was born not of blood, nor the will of the flesh, | 21:08 | |
| nor the will of man, but of God. | 21:14 | |
| And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us. | 21:20 | |
| And we beheld his glory, | 21:24 | |
| the glory as of the only begotten of the father, | 21:27 | |
| full of grace and truth. | 21:32 | |
| Here endeth the reading of the scripture. | 21:37 | |
| (organ music) | 21:43 | |
| (choir singing) | 21:55 | |
| (organ music) | 22:38 | |
| (choir singing) | 23:26 | |
| The Lord be with you. | 28:32 | |
| (audience speaking faintly) | 28:34 | |
| Let us pray. | 28:37 | |
| Let us offer onto God the litany of commemoration. | 28:47 | |
| Oh, mighty and eternal God, in whom our fathers trusted, | 28:53 | |
| we, their children, on this day of remembrance | 29:02 | |
| offer onto thee our litany of commemoration. | 29:07 | |
| (audience speaking faintly) | 29:13 | |
| For the men and women of this state, | 29:18 | |
| Methodist and Quakers, farmers and merchantmen, | 29:22 | |
| teachers and administrators who believed in education, | 29:28 | |
| and made their belief prevail. | 29:34 | |
| (audience speaking faintly) | 29:39 | |
| For the embodiment of their dreams, | 29:42 | |
| private school, academy, college, university | 29:46 | |
| founded in hope, | 29:55 | |
| continued with perseverance, | 29:58 | |
| growing in our preach, | 30:03 | |
| established in assurance. | 30:05 | |
| (audience speaking faintly) | 30:09 | |
| For educators whose vision was matched | 30:13 | |
| by their courage, whose patience was tempered | 30:17 | |
| by their indignation, | 30:22 | |
| whose idealism was moderated by their awareness of sin. | 30:26 | |
| (audience speaking faintly) | 30:33 | |
| For the Duke family, fathers, | 30:37 | |
| sons and their wives, | 30:42 | |
| grandchildren in continuing generation | 30:45 | |
| who with wonder and surprise, | 30:52 | |
| bewilderment and tenacity laid a good foundation, | 30:56 | |
| built a worthy school | 31:02 | |
| and provided for exciting growth beyond their kin | 31:05 | |
| in years unseen. | 31:10 | |
| We give thee thanks and praise. | 31:13 | |
| For the continuance of good ideas, | 31:18 | |
| the union of truth and reverence, | 31:22 | |
| the freedom of responsible academic thought | 31:27 | |
| and right to public concern, | 31:31 | |
| the joint care of the body and the spirit, | 31:35 | |
| the linking of science and humanities, | 31:40 | |
| the realization that the old order changeth. | 31:45 | |
| We give thee thanks and praise. | 31:51 | |
| For the future of our university | 31:55 | |
| established to thy glory and for the relief of man's estate, | 32:00 | |
| for the consecration of the discontent of the young, | 32:08 | |
| for wisdom and the conservatism of the middle aged, | 32:14 | |
| for resiliency in the obstinacy of the old, | 32:20 | |
| for understanding, cooperation, | 32:26 | |
| and the sense of humor within our community. | 32:31 | |
| Hear us, we beseech thee, oh, Lord. | 32:36 | |
| And to thee we shall ascribe, as is most due, | 32:40 | |
| all praise and glory, world without end, amen. | 32:46 | |
| (faint organ music) | 33:00 | |
| (faint organ music) | 35:22 | |
| ♪ Sanctus ♪ | 35:26 | |
| ♪ Sanctus ♪ | 35:31 | |
| ♪ Sanctus dominus deus sabaoth ♪ | 35:34 | |
| ♪ Sanctus ♪ | 35:46 | |
| ♪ Sanctus ♪ | 35:50 | |
| ♪ Sanctus dominus deus sabaoth ♪ | 35:54 | |
| ♪ Sanctus ♪ | 36:06 | |
| ♪ Sanctus ♪ | 36:10 | |
| ♪ Sanctus dominus deus sabaoth ♪ | 36:14 | |
| ♪ Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua ♪ | 36:23 | |
| ♪ Hosanna in excelsis ♪ | 36:33 | |
| ♪ Hosanna in excelsis ♪ | 37:00 | |
| ♪ Hosanna in excelsis ♪ | 37:17 | |
| ♪ Hosanna ♪ | 37:31 | |
| ♪ Hosanna in excelsis ♪ | 37:35 | |
| ♪ In excelsis ♪ | 37:41 | |
| (trumpet music) | 37:52 | |
| ♪ Hosanna ♪ | 38:28 | |
| ♪ Benedictus qui venit ♪ | 39:14 | |
| ♪ In nomine Domini ♪ | 39:23 | |
| ♪ Hosanna in excelsis ♪ | 39:31 | |
| (organ music) | 40:19 | |
| (choir singing) | 40:45 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 40:59 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 41:02 | |
| (choir singing) | 41:08 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 41:22 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 41:25 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 41:29 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 41:32 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 41:36 | |
| (organ music) | 41:46 | |
| Here we offer and present onto thee, oh, God, our gifts. | 41:59 | |
| As of the cradle of thy son, | 42:07 | |
| gold because he reigns as our kin, | 42:11 | |
| frankincense because he lives as our high priest. | 42:17 | |
| Myhrr because he died for our wellbeing. | 42:25 | |
| Accept him for we bring them in gratitude and in love. | 42:32 | |
| To his honor, and to thy glory. | 42:40 | |
| Amen. | 42:47 | |
| In the name of the father, and of the son, | 43:19 | |
| and of the holy spirit, amen. | 43:25 | |
| On this Sunday in advent, I greet you, | 43:32 | |
| and on this day on which we celebrate the founding | 43:38 | |
| of this university, | 43:42 | |
| for me is a high privilege to stand in this pulpit, | 43:47 | |
| to come into this chapel, | 43:52 | |
| which is the most beautiful chapel in America. | 43:57 | |
| One of the three or four most beautiful chapels | 44:01 | |
| in the world. | 44:04 | |
| To come to a place where I, as a student, | 44:07 | |
| at times was bored beyond words, | 44:12 | |
| and at times was lifted to some new height, | 44:18 | |
| and life was made a bit different. | 44:24 | |
| And so I come today to join with you in our celebrations. | 44:29 | |
| And for our (indistinct) beginning | 44:37 | |
| I would call to your attention the words read to you | 44:42 | |
| in the scripture | 44:46 | |
| where John seeking to interpret to the Greek world | 44:49 | |
| something of a meaning of a coming of Jesus | 44:54 | |
| said that he was a light who had come in darkness. | 44:59 | |
| The king James translation says, | 45:07 | |
| "And the darkness comprehended it not." | 45:10 | |
| A more graphic translation is, | 45:16 | |
| he was a light that came in the darkness, | 45:21 | |
| and the darkness has never put it out. | 45:24 | |
| Three things I want to say today. | 45:30 | |
| One, | 45:34 | |
| I want to recognize that, which some of the keenest thinkers | 45:37 | |
| of our day are saying, | 45:41 | |
| and that is that we are facing | 45:44 | |
| a possible destruction of civilization. | 45:47 | |
| This is being said, not by the prophets | 45:54 | |
| from the pulpits, primarily, | 45:57 | |
| but from a scientist and a sociologist. | 46:00 | |
| A second thing I want to say is, | 46:06 | |
| in spite of the darkness here and there, | 46:11 | |
| I see some glimmers of light. | 46:16 | |
| It may not be sunset. | 46:21 | |
| It might be sunrise. | 46:27 | |
| And the third thing I want to say is | 46:32 | |
| that a university, such as Duke, | 46:35 | |
| has a part to play | 46:40 | |
| if there is hope for a creative future. | 46:44 | |
| So first, | 46:51 | |
| the basic problem of our time is not Vietnam, | 46:55 | |
| as deep as that problem is, | 46:59 | |
| the most difficult problem of all time is not racism, | 47:05 | |
| as much as I'm sure it must be eliminated. | 47:13 | |
| The most fundamental problem of our time | 47:21 | |
| is the problem of survival. | 47:25 | |
| My neighbor in Topeka, the eminent Dr. Karl Menninger | 47:31 | |
| said recently that our major problem is not hunger, | 47:37 | |
| nor is it war or peace, | 47:47 | |
| but literal question and with literal answer | 47:51 | |
| of what must we do to be saved. | 47:55 | |
| This is a physical question, and not just one of the spirit. | 48:01 | |
| It is one of the spirit as well. | 48:06 | |
| Speaking in Topeka on Thursday of this week, | 48:12 | |
| up across the University of Kansas, | 48:15 | |
| speaking to a conference | 48:20 | |
| on the saving of our resources, | 48:22 | |
| said the price of environmental pollution | 48:30 | |
| is the ultimate destruction of the world in which we live. | 48:33 | |
| Dr. Ross McKinney went on to say, | 48:41 | |
| if we ignore environmental pollution, | 48:44 | |
| we will destroy everything wonderful | 48:48 | |
| about the world in which we live. | 48:51 | |
| There will be no tomorrow for our children | 48:54 | |
| or our grandchildren. | 48:59 | |
| Pollution, which seemed to be just the dirtying up | 49:02 | |
| of streams for a while | 49:06 | |
| now has become a threat of extinction. | 49:10 | |
| The greenhouse may soon be here, | 49:16 | |
| as we with our smog build such a condition | 49:21 | |
| that the temperature going up five degrees on average, | 49:28 | |
| and the ice caps begin to melt, | 49:33 | |
| and the whole Eastern seaboard is under the Atlantic ocean. | 49:36 | |
| This is a scientist speaking, not the preacher. | 49:43 | |
| Survival is our problem. | 49:50 | |
| Last summer, I had the privilege | 49:56 | |
| of being in Oak Ridge in Tennessee | 49:58 | |
| for two weeks with a nuclear scientist. | 50:00 | |
| The thing they said was, | 50:06 | |
| our basic problem is the problem of population control. | 50:11 | |
| If we can control the population, | 50:19 | |
| we can likely meet the other problem. | 50:23 | |
| But if we cannot, | 50:26 | |
| the other problems cannot be solved. | 50:29 | |
| Pollution, hunger, health, sociological relationships. | 50:33 | |
| And you see, it's not just a matter | 50:41 | |
| any longer of family planning, | 50:43 | |
| it's going to be a model of national planning | 50:48 | |
| and world planning. | 50:52 | |
| Families of themselves and by themselves | 50:55 | |
| cannot control this. | 50:58 | |
| For those who need most to understand the control | 51:03 | |
| or those who are least likely to enter into the control. | 51:07 | |
| Dr. Leroy Augenstein writing recently said, | 51:15 | |
| and he carries it to the ridiculous, | 51:22 | |
| "The average increase in population per year | 51:26 | |
| throughout the world is 2%. | 51:30 | |
| If we continue to increase it 2% per year, | 51:35 | |
| the world population will double in a short 35 years." | 51:39 | |
| And this is correct. | 51:43 | |
| "There will be one, | 51:46 | |
| if this continues to increase at the same rate | 51:50 | |
| for 500 to 600 years, | 51:53 | |
| there will be one square yard per person | 51:57 | |
| on the whole earth. | 52:00 | |
| Then in 1700 years at our present rate, | 52:03 | |
| the sheer physical mass of people | 52:12 | |
| would exceed the mass of the earth itself." | 52:16 | |
| Our problem is the problem of survival. | 52:22 | |
| The college students on this campus | 52:31 | |
| and the whole of our campus of America | 52:33 | |
| have lived every day of their life | 52:40 | |
| in the shadow of a mushroom cloud. | 52:44 | |
| They do not know what it means to live in a day | 52:50 | |
| when there's not the threat of annihilation. | 52:54 | |
| Complete and ultimate annihilation. | 53:00 | |
| It is not surprising that a generation like this | 53:05 | |
| rises up with deep concerns | 53:08 | |
| about what is happening in our world. | 53:12 | |
| If they did not, we need to be more concerned about them. | 53:14 | |
| And who knows what day some madman, some fool | 53:22 | |
| may push the button. | 53:30 | |
| The sword of Damocles is nothing to compare | 53:34 | |
| with a threat of a mushroom cloud. | 53:38 | |
| Our problem is survival. | 53:43 | |
| We have rejoiced as the men of America | 53:51 | |
| walked on the moon. | 53:57 | |
| I looked out and see the moon, | 54:00 | |
| and it seems an impossibility that actually men | 54:02 | |
| have stepped upon this, and walked on this, | 54:07 | |
| and yet this is true. | 54:10 | |
| But the stepping on the moon may not be | 54:14 | |
| the most significant part of all this. | 54:17 | |
| For you see, those who are best informed tell us | 54:21 | |
| that they who control outer space | 54:28 | |
| will control the earth. | 54:33 | |
| The day the telescope is so carefully | 54:37 | |
| and so magnificently perfected that actually | 54:42 | |
| ants can be counted on the sidewalk | 54:47 | |
| a hundred miles beneath some object in space. | 54:52 | |
| A laser beam is being perfected, | 54:58 | |
| so the say, very soon it will be able | 55:01 | |
| to be aimed so carefully | 55:05 | |
| that if I step out of my front door, | 55:11 | |
| a laser beam from a hundred miles up | 55:15 | |
| can pick me out and eliminate me from life. | 55:20 | |
| Our problem is the problem of survival. | 55:31 | |
| The last time I was on the Duke campus, | 55:38 | |
| I was honored very greatly | 55:41 | |
| by receiving an honorary degree. | 55:44 | |
| It was a graduation that some of you remember. | 55:48 | |
| When in the midst of a graduation | 55:52 | |
| president Knight stood and said | 55:56 | |
| that he had received a warning | 56:00 | |
| that a bomb had been placed in the field house. | 56:03 | |
| The (indistinct) was not sure, | 56:07 | |
| and certainly it likely was not the case, | 56:10 | |
| but they were advised to move everyone out. | 56:12 | |
| He stood as a captain of a ship, | 56:17 | |
| and we did not know then that they had said | 56:20 | |
| the bomb would explode at 11 o'clock, | 56:22 | |
| and 11 o'clock came, and he stood, | 56:26 | |
| and watched us as we marched out. | 56:29 | |
| It was an act of heroism | 56:33 | |
| that I'm not sure was known by many. | 56:35 | |
| Of course, there was no bomb. | 56:42 | |
| But in our day, that which was a scare on this campus | 56:45 | |
| may be the reality of our existence. | 56:53 | |
| There may be a bomb ticking away. | 57:02 | |
| Our problem is the problem of survival. | 57:07 | |
| But there's a second thing I want to say, | 57:17 | |
| and that is that in spite of the fact | 57:21 | |
| that there are desperate circumstances | 57:27 | |
| in our relationships one with another, | 57:31 | |
| our incapacity to face up to reality, | 57:36 | |
| our stupidity in not changing things that must be changed. | 57:41 | |
| In spite of a fact, there is deep | 57:48 | |
| and possibly tragic danger, | 57:54 | |
| I see that in which I find hope. | 57:59 | |
| In fact, I have a theology of hope, | 58:05 | |
| and I think probably it begins, | 58:10 | |
| well, I think it begins at Bethlehem. | 58:14 | |
| About six weeks ago, I was in the holy land. | 58:18 | |
| I went again out of Jerusalem over a hill | 58:25 | |
| and down a valley, over another high hill, | 58:28 | |
| a rocky, barren hill, | 58:31 | |
| and then looking across the valley I saw Bethlehem. | 58:34 | |
| And as always happens with me, | 58:43 | |
| I could not but feel the words of Phillips Brooks, | 58:49 | |
| "Oh, little town of Bethlehem, | 58:56 | |
| how still we see thee lie above thy deep | 58:59 | |
| and dreamless peace, asleep the silent stars go by." | 59:04 | |
| I went to Bethlehem, | 59:13 | |
| and there I saw the source of my hope. | 59:19 | |
| And that is, it seems to be that, | 59:25 | |
| which comes into our world, | 59:29 | |
| born of a baby in the most unexpected place, | 59:36 | |
| and in that birth something happened | 59:44 | |
| that the world has never been able to rid itself of. | 59:48 | |
| We tried to get rid of Christmas, | 59:56 | |
| and wonder when it is we're going to throw away | 59:58 | |
| this childish remembrance of gifts and songs, | 1:00:01 | |
| and yet it keeps coming back each year. | 1:00:07 | |
| In some way we know there's something deeper | 1:00:11 | |
| than the (indistinct), | 1:00:14 | |
| and greater even than the song of "Jingle Bells". | 1:00:16 | |
| There's something here that has deeper meaning, | 1:00:23 | |
| and when one walks to Bethlehem, | 1:00:28 | |
| one begins to understand | 1:00:33 | |
| that a star shone in the night, | 1:00:35 | |
| and the star still shines. | 1:00:41 | |
| That a light came in darkness, | 1:00:46 | |
| the light of God's love, | 1:00:48 | |
| and the darkness has never been able to put it out. | 1:00:51 | |
| That the angels sang, fear not, | 1:00:58 | |
| for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, | 1:01:03 | |
| which shall be to all people, | 1:01:07 | |
| for unto you is born this day in the city of David, | 1:01:09 | |
| our savior, a baby was born. | 1:01:13 | |
| And this is where hope is born for me. | 1:01:21 | |
| That into a world as bleak and barren as that world was, | 1:01:27 | |
| a baby was born and the world was changed. | 1:01:33 | |
| And across the years babies are born, | 1:01:39 | |
| new ideas are born, new institutions are born, | 1:01:44 | |
| and the world is changed. | 1:01:47 | |
| A baby was born, | 1:01:53 | |
| and a man learned how to treat milk, so it would be safe. | 1:01:57 | |
| And learned how to give to those | 1:02:06 | |
| who had been ravaged by some mad dog shots, | 1:02:10 | |
| and they would live for the first time in all of history. | 1:02:14 | |
| His name was Louis Pasteur, a baby was born. | 1:02:19 | |
| In our day, when I was in Duke with dread | 1:02:29 | |
| that drove us one summer from where we were working | 1:02:33 | |
| to another section in the state was infantile paralysis. | 1:02:37 | |
| But a baby had been born, | 1:02:42 | |
| and one day we went to school, to the school building | 1:02:45 | |
| with our children, each of us took a little cube of sugar | 1:02:50 | |
| with something dropped on it, | 1:02:54 | |
| and we swallowed the cube of sugar. | 1:02:55 | |
| And we fear no more the crippling, | 1:03:00 | |
| deadly effects of poliomyelitis. | 1:03:06 | |
| A baby was born. | 1:03:11 | |
| And babies are continuing to be born. | 1:03:15 | |
| And ideas are coming to birth, | 1:03:20 | |
| we went from the holy land over to Athens, | 1:03:24 | |
| and there, as I stood on the Acropolis, | 1:03:28 | |
| I changed my first love, | 1:03:31 | |
| Rome has always been my first love, | 1:03:33 | |
| a great city, a magnificent city, | 1:03:36 | |
| but someway I left my first love, | 1:03:39 | |
| and standing there, Athens became the city of my choice. | 1:03:43 | |
| For as I stood there and looked around me, | 1:03:50 | |
| I knew I stood in the cradle of a Western world | 1:03:53 | |
| where Socrates and philosophy was born, | 1:03:58 | |
| philosophers, but someway it came to fucus here, | 1:04:03 | |
| where Aristotle came into being, | 1:04:07 | |
| and science was launched. | 1:04:10 | |
| Where architects learned the secrets and. | 1:04:14 |