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...chief value of the League of Nations is that it provides a consultative body where everyone can air his grievances," said Canon Scott, when asked whether he thought the League would prevent future wars. "Most wars are caused by people not stopping to consider long enough. The League provides time for consideration, and for this reason is important...
That the war made saints of soldiers, Canon Scott denied, but it was his impression that the war caused each man to feel that there was some mysterious power to which he owed allegiance. "Duty was the all-impelling force which made the men go through what they did, and it really makes little difference whether you interpret religion as duty...
...Canon Scott, in further discussing religion as it applied to the war, told the CRIMSON reporter than an officer, high in the English army, had found that men who had come from good homes, where religious influences were strongest were to be found mentioned in dispatches and decorated more often than the men whose upbringing had been lacking in religious teaching...
...Canon Scott told the CRIMSON reporter that he has always felt indebted to President Emeritus Eliot for a speech of his during the early part of the war. "We were getting the worst of it at the time, and it seems that some pacifist organization asked President Eliot to appeal to the American President to try and stop the war. This President Eliot refused to do, and I always liked his answer. 'The English people have often gotten themselves into scrapes and they usually manage to crawl out of them...
...human fecundity. The change from large to small families is not to be impatiently condemned. Victories in medicine and hygiene may be disastrous for public welfare unless the desire for many children, which is natural and until recently laudable, is held in check." The same evening, the local vicar, Canon F. C. N. Hicks, mounted the pulpit, declared he could not let the Bishop's words go unchallenged: "I disagree profoundly with that teaching; I myself abide by the teaching of the Church." The incident had no immediate consequences for the reason that Brighton is not in the diocese...