Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Lords did not send the Irish Bill (TIME, Sept. 29 et seq.) back to the Commons. An amendment was proposed by Lord Carson; but, reminded by Lord Salisbury that it would be unfortunate to enter into conflict with "another place" (stock phrase of the Lords for the House of Commons), he withdrew the motion and the bill was passed...
...with no specific answers to the ultimate problems of life. But he comes with the specific recognition that they are unanswerable. He sets truth in a new light by drawing a sharp line between what one knows, and what one is impelled by inclination merely to believe. Adjusting the conflict between science and religion, he makes plain that the central idea of the religion of the future will be the development of cooperative goodwill, "inspiring men to works of beauty, love and duty...
...irony capable of confounding all coiners of catch phrases that religious discussion should occupy a prominent place at Harvard, often called "godless" to imply its apathy to such matters. Quite the contrary to "godless", Harvard can not rest with a religious ideal in conflict with secular knowledge. The period is one of transition, in which every student decides for himself whether in his case...
...Modernists (both names are about as appropriate as the average cigar label) which divides most of the Dissenting Sects. Mr. Wim. Jennings Bryan's sad dilemma of "the Rock of Ages and the age of rocks" simply can not exist for the Catholic Churchman. There is no more real conflict between natural science and the Church, so long as each remains properly itself, than between geometry and philosophy. There are, of course, unscientific scientists and priests who take "flyers" outside their province; but that does not effect the true alignments...
...CONFLICT OF POLICIES IN ASIA-Thomas F. Millard-Century ($4.00). A searching inquiry into the international policies of the Far East from the Paris Peace Conference to the Washington Conference, with special reference to the role of the U. S. in China and Japan and the Oriental aims of European countries. Mr. Millard writes with a force which plainly indicates that he is master of subject. If his views cannot be generally accepted, they at least provide food for thought...