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...present it would be illusory to slow down the preparation of military material. Only tomorrow will we know whether the other peoples are ready to disarm. ... I affirm that we can have confidence in our army, and I affirm that our national defense is assured...
...theism, deism, modernism, "new thought'' and instead of feeling religious emotions concentrates on human life-la- bor, art, science, philosophy, love, friendship, recreation. ¶Humanism is for "a socialized and co-operative economic order-a shared life in a shared world." Its adherents say that it will: "Affirm life rather than deny it ... seek to elicit the possibilities of life, not flee from it ... establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few." Most Humanists come from Unitarian. Universalist, Baptist and Congregationalist churches. In recent years 60 Unitarian ministers have embraced Humanism. Their...
...Shelley was usually thinkink what he thought he ought to think and felt what he thought he ought to feel," Mr. Eliot stated, in contradiction to those who affirm the Arielesque spontaneity of the poet. "Hence, the greatest passages in his poetry are the ones which contain none of his 'revolutionary' political and social beliefs. Revolution has produced an adolescent and incoherent poet in Shelley since he was too occupied with his ideas on free-love...
...What they modestly describe as a "footnote to Harvard history" will be found elsewhere in the present issue of the Bulletin. While making no claim to originality, and acknowledging their indebtedness to Frederick Winsor '93, as well as to the educational currents of their time, they justly affirm their independence, It is a matter of no small importance that this initiative should have come from undergraduates of Harvard College. The House Plan met with its most formidable resistance in that quarter. It could never have succeeded if it had been imposed on its supposed beneficiaries by a benevolent paternalism...
Whatever the outcome of the election today it will settle no great issue nor will it affirm or deny any political principle. Whether the conduct of the United States government will be measurably altered during the next four years should Governor Roosevelt be elected is in itself doubtful. There is nothing new in this although the present campaign has failed peculiarly to distinguish between the two leading parties. What is important and remains so unaffected by the consequences of today's election is that the working principles of government which are assumed by both democrats and republicans and to some...