    153

    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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