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Correct the commas in the following, where necessary:

1. The main cause of the friction between the new African nations, is due to tribal jealousies.
2. That scientists will ever reach a final truth, seems doubtful.
3. Senator Tushure's solution to the impasse with Russia was, to eliminate our bases in the Near East.
4. The President's second White Paper stated, that the United States would not surrender overseas bases in order to avoid war.
5. The patrol's duties were to locate enemy machine gun emplacements, and to cut enemy telephone lines.
6. The Lieutenant sent out a second patrol, and radioed headquarters to send more mortar ammunition.
7. Mr. Gunn is a spirited, public servant.
8. I found a rare, old, vulgate Bible in our attic.
9. In Economics 3A, students meet for a fourth hour each week in small groups, this gives them a chance to learn from each other.
10. The instructor continued to discuss the theory of natural selection until nearly eleven o'clock, nobody told him the class period had ended.
11. Reciprocal trade agreements make for flexibility in world commerce, they are used by virtually all national governments.
12. Senator Foreman was absent when his pork-barrel bill came to a vote, however, his colleagues saw that it passed safely.
13. The Watch and Ward Society banned Three on a Honeymoon from sale in Boston, moreover they announced that the movie based on the book would not be shown in Boston theaters.
14. English teachers are likely to have personal prejudices about little matters of usage, consequently, students often feel that they have been given conflicting rules.
15. A question, often asked by psychologists, is whether a particular behavior pattern manifested in an individual is due to heredity or environment.
16. Another religion based on the philosophy of idealism is Christian Science which many scholars think was an outgrowth of Transcendentalism.
17. Authoritarianism is a philosophic point of view, which says that the ultimate or most valid source of knowledge is authority of some kind.
18. Biochemists and geneticists both of whom work with the chemical determinants of heredity have been carrying on experiments which show that the mechanism of heredity can be altered.
19. David Hume who was the most notable English philosopher of the later eighteenth century espoused a philosophy of complete skepticism.
20. Even now scientists find a borderline between life and non-life, which suggests that there is no really clear-cut distinction between the living and the non-living.
21. Hawthorne who was a friend of Emerson's rejected Transcendentalism which he felt ignored the problem of evil in man's life.
22. He maintains that no event can happen to you that is not due to both heredity and environment which is to say that nothing can happen to you which your heredity did not provide for and that nothing can happen to you in a new environment.
23. Idealist philosophers are those, who maintain that the ultimate reality is mind or spirit, not matter.
24. It is expected that scientists will soon actually create life in a test tube, an event, which will have profound religious and philosophic significance.
25. No religious or philosophic doctrine, that is acceptable to all, has ever been devised.
26. Nurses, who work night shift, are more likely to administer wrong drugs.
27. Philosophers, who reject authoritarianism, are called relativists.
28. Plato who developed the philosophy of forms is generally regarded as the fountainhead of the philosophy of idealism.
29. Professor Newman's point of view which seems logical is that all behavior patterns are due to both heredity and environment.
30. Some philosophers, who are relativists in politics, are authoritarian in ethics.
31. Some virus-like particles seem to be living material but incapable of reproduction which suggests that the difference between life and non-life is chemical.
32. Thank you for your letter I received today.
33. The Book of Job written about 1500 B.C. is a literary discourse on the nature of evil in man's life.
34. The book, most sought after in college libraries, is God's Little Acre.
35. The canned music, supplied by Muzak, should never be let out of the can.
36. The code, that is stored chemically in the genes in a human cell, is said to contain enough information to fill ten thousand encyclopedic volumes.
37. The first book, written by William Faulkner, was The Marble Faun.
38. The manager, of the supermarket, decided to poke every woman who poked his tomatoes.
39. The novel of William Faulkner's, which earned him the most money, was Sanctuary.
40. Theologians, who support the Calvinist doctrines, believe that evil in man's life is due to the original sin of Adam and Eve.
41. Transcendentalism which is a religious philosophy developed in America in the 1830s by Emerson and others is a variety of idealism.