Word: agelong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petty kingdoms; and from the 9th Century to the 19th "Italy" lost its meaning as a political entity and became a region of separate states-some free cities, some republics, some ruled by kings, princes, dukes or petty nobles. Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor...
...sublime conception of God which is furnished by science, and one wholly consonant with the highest ideals of religion, when it represents Him as revealing Himself through countless ages in the development of the earth as an abode for man and in the agelong inbreathing of life into its constituent matter, culminating in man with his spiritual nature and all his Godlike powers...
Liberals, like Dr. Fosdick, claim that the agelong experiences of religion remain, but that the interpretation changes with the time. He rejects the biblical ideas of science, and accepts modern conclusions. In a sermon last summer Dr. Fosdick pointed out the many similarities between the story of the Virgin Birth and the stories told of the founders of other religions. This now famous sermon, entitled Shall the Fundamentalists Win? made the conservative Presbyterians of Philadelphia attack Dr. Fosdick's right to preach in the pulpit of the First Church, New York. The Fundamentalists hold that the Bible is proved...
...English speaking peoples have established themselves into strong, firmly-knit nations all over the world, and the underlying secret of their success has been the Angio-Saxon tradition of the common law, as deeply ingrained as the English stock itself. Germans have held together through common inheritance of the agelong tradition of loyalty to the chief, handed down from the wandering tribes of the "Germania" in Tacitus's day. France, shaken by revolutions half a dozen times in the last hundred and thirty years, has emerged with a strong central government through the triumphant tradition of the Roman...