Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then Stace has thought through a personal conflict which his article only partially illumined-one between his intellectual "antireligious" belief and "a fundamental religious feeling" retained since childhood. In a book published this week, Time and Eternity (Princeton; $3), he shows the other side of the coin which he held up to his readers 3½ years ago. He calls it "a defense of religion"; more exactly, it is a philosopher's admission that there is a God independent of nature -although experience of Him need not be tied to a religious creed...
Stace rejects any literal interpretation of religious belief: "The devil* laughs with joy when he finds that the saint takes his beliefs to be facts, because he knows that he has then an easy prey." His reasoning, which sometimes runs through pretty deep water, is that an Infinite God can have no connection with the natural order of things, since everything in the universe or connected with it must by definition have some limitations of time or space...
...ROTC has no place in a "university such as Harvard," and that it is not in keeping with what the university is trying to teach. Such are the views held by Mr. Kameny, but I wonder if his professed liberalism is of a pseudo type, for it is my belief that a liberal university should teach all subjects, military science and Sanskrit alike...
...confining themselves to the job of defending their country, Latin American militarists are entrenched as "the only well-organized political party" in every country except Costa Rica, Uruguay, Chile and perhaps Colombia. In many countries, the army consumes an inordinate share of the national income, and fosters the belief that it alone is fit to rule. It was armed power that put Batista back in Cuba. Other men had the votes; he had the guns...
Last week the Bulletin took a look a Russian science. Contrary to popular belief, wrote Editor Eugene Rabinowitch, the quality of science in Russia "is clearly on the upgrade ... It is wrong to think of contemporary Soviet science as being largely paralyzed by ... ignorant politicians." In many branches the Russians are turning out brilliant work. Warned the Bulletin: The U.S. should beware of "smug satisfaction with our own superiority . . . a belief that we can leave Soviet competition far behind simply by tightening secrecy and preventing leaks...