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...worked out a mechanical theory of bowed strings and violin tone, and a theory of musical instruments. Seven years ago he made a brief visit to California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, rendezvous of Nobel Prize winners. Word from his Chair of Physics at Calcutta University is scientific dogma. Last autumn he received a Nobel Prize (TIME...
...heresy", the progressive attitude of the present Pope sems phenomenal, but the whole world has become tolerant and the Catholic church has had to follow. It never was a leader in this movement, nor has it yet sanctioned the liberal individualism of today. It remains a hierarchy based on dogma, but because of the broad-mindedness of its recent pontiffs has seemed to be in step with the times...
...five: nor are most normal people buoyed up by the unromantic hope that they may learn more mathematics; but many are "weary of the earth," and some are "laden with their sins." For these "The Conquest of Happiness" was written. It is not profound or ritualistic dogma; it is not a conquest built upon mechanical logic; it is the philosophy of a happy man expounded for everyman. In the book there are many truisms and many time worn panaceas for the jaded spirit, but they are set forth with a vigor and a clarify that lend a new vitality...
...wore khaki trousers, woolen shirts. In life he made known his views on education and religion to only a few intimates. Born of an Episcopal family, of British ancestry, he was never a church member, never a Ku Kluxer. He believed that religion is a personal matter, that church dogma should not be taught as fact. His reason for placing his chain-schools in the country, for restricting enrolment to native or British-blooded whites, was that isolation and a common background would give his youths a better chance to study, his schools a better chance to succeed. First...
Archbishop John Hughes (1797-1864)* was in Rome on Dec. 8, 1854 when Pope Pius IX proclaimed the new dogma and instructed Catholics to believe ''that the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the first instant of her conception, was, by a most singular grace and privilege of Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the human race, preserved from all stain of Original Sin. . . ." Catholics also believe that "she had at least the graces of the first Eve before the Fall and "more." The dogma invigorated the ancient veneration of Mary. The woman Mary became...