Juggernaut : corrupt spelling of Jagannāth. Based on an occasional accident or two, false reports that devotees threw themselves under the wheels of His chariot were circulated in the West to use the term to denigrate Hinduism
... paragraph: “The juggernaut of technology-based capitalism will not be stopped. Its momentum is reinforced by the billions of poor people in developing countries anxious to participate in order to share the material wealth of the industrialized nations. But its directions can be changed by mandate of a generally shared long-term environmental ethic. The choice is clear: the juggernaut will very soon ...
... or phrase. Thus the poet tells us in one luminous line that A policeman's clumsy tread goes slowly by, and in another makes us hear Another policeman trying doors this way, a "car of Juggernaut" Tuff-tuffing, clattering, clashing, chaos-crowned, a muddled clatter, voices confused, a shrieking whistle, solemn clock strokes "muttering ere they die", that Fade like a halo or a dying ...
... for Lamarckian change has such a clear direction and permits evolution to proceed so rapidly that Darwin’s much slower process of material selection shrinks to insignificance before the Lamarckian juggernaut.” 31 One could go on quoting in the same vain and show that even Francis Crick, on alternate days, dares to lean towards Lamarckism. The following words of André Pichot are worth quoting in ...
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