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...MARTIN BERTRAND Copenhagen, Denmark...
...totalitarians of any stripe. On his minuscule budget, Editor Levitas could not afford to pay his contributors, telling them: "Don't expect to profit from the truth." With that approach, and with his policy of letting them write whatever they wished, he attracted such as John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, George Orwell, Herbert Morrison and Walter Reuther...
...here: There is W. E. B. DuBois, the current darling of the Kremlin; Harry F. Ward, Harvard '58; Felix Frankfurter, Harvard '06, who today is a Supreme Court Justice and who was dubbed by Teddy Roosevelt a Trotskyite red; Walter Lippmann '10; Roger N. Baldwin '05; Stuart Chase '10; Bertrand Russell, who taught his Fabianism at Harvard; Harold Laski and John Reed '10, studied there before they left for Moscow; and Lauchlin Currie, Allen Rosenberg, and Irving Schiller. The over-all foe for all these and so many others was capitalism and their individual enemies were men of business...
...unproductive. The wealth of the church was almost entirely in land, as Bertrand Russell points out, and landowners are borrowers rather than lenders. But when Protestantism arose, its support-especially that of Calvinism-came chiefly from the rich middle class, who were lenders rather than borrowers. Accordingly, first Calvin, then other Protestants, and finally the Roman Catholic Church, decided that charging interest under proper restrictions was not a violation of natural law after all-although usury in the sense of exorbitant interest still...
What caused its decline is chiefly a combination of Protestant theology and modern rationalist philosophy. "The new rationalism," as Murray describes the thought of men like John Dewey and Bertrand Russell, sees man as autonomous, beneath no knowable God, with...