title: The Temple Not Made With Hands
author:  Walter C. Lanyon 
description: Little is known about Walter C. Lanyon, except that he was an American born Englishman, educated in this country, England, France and Germany. He died in California in 1967.
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  # Temple
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Robert Swartwood
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The question isn’t who is Temple—no one knows that—but rather what is Temple.
  Is he a hero? Is he a vigilante? What Temple most certainly is not is a
  communist, as the junior senator from Wisconsin has recently suggested in a
  press conference. The mere idea is preposterous, and the senator has no valid
  evidence to support such a claim. Earlier, the senator asked, “Upon what meat
  does this, our Caesar, feed?” Had he looked three lines earlier in
  Shakespeare’s _Caesar_ , he would have found this line, which is not
  altogether inappropriate: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in
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