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...strictly natural science, the greatest of all possible sciences, indeed, in one sense, the only science, that of Infinite Being, without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so-called miraculous revelation. I wish it considered just as astronomy or chemistry is." On this bedrock basis, the world's outstanding theologians have lectured ever since. The Gifford Lectures have never been given by a second-rater, and most of the great religious writing of the last half century has been done for them...
...safe, sound, thoroughly American bedrock of Florida's winter trade was bigger and sounder than ever. A bus-line authority said that trying to count the passengers was like counting the snowflakes that fell in Manhattan last week. The middleaged, the old, the thrifty young thronged ancient, calm St. Augustine, Fort Lauderdale, Delray Beach on the Atlantic Coast. St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Mexico did its usual huge and placid business. The thousands of green benches along the city's sidewalks and in the parks were always crowded. Gaffers 75 and over played their daily six innings...
...predictions, except that hard times are ahead. Continual planning and continual revising will be necessary, and many important decisions as to "unessentials" will have to be made under pressure. But if the enunciated attitude of the University is a guidepost for the future, then education will still be the bedrock of democracy when the war has passed into history...
These piddling nicks out of the President's "bedrock" budget were unimportant in themselves-committees of both Houses were making bigger gashes in other bills-but they convinced Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau* that Mr. Roosevelt's recommended $460,000,000 national defense tax bill was a gone goose in this election year...
...mankind's chief danger. It is because the war to end selfishness has never been fought that the war to end wars has never been won. Our goal should be a new civilization, built not on the quicksands of personal and national self-interest but on the bedrock of personal wellbeing, national security and international peace and good will...