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...unquestioning faith. The quality of mysticism, which Professor Lake so stresses, is reduced to a minimum, and religion becomes a cold academic fact. This spirit, condemn it or not, is born from the very nature of Harvard's critical unemotionalism, While it exists, no amateur, preacher and no narrowing dogma can chain the minds of Harvard undergraduates...
...regard evolution as a religious dogma or as a political theory. One does not believe in facts: one accepts them. I think Mr. Bryan is worth hearing on any subject, regardless of whether he knows anything about it or not, Intellectually. I have the same interest in Mr. Bryan's ideas of evolution as I have in Henry Ford's ideas on the prose of George Moore or Mary Pickford's ideas on the theory of relativity, or for that matter, what Queen Victoria thought about the procession of equinoxes...
Harvard, of course, must always be attacked, just as one feels free to criticise the Constitution or the White Mountains. It is the price always paid for strength and excellence, above all for the steady resistance to dogma, religious, political and economic; it is the sharp wind that blows the harder, the swifter and the better the ship. Harvard as a spiritual entity whose function is to teach and haply to educate the youth, asks nothing better than to be counted a worker in our American Commonwealth, but as such entity cannot and must not have its facts manufactured...
...witness the wholesome and vivifying border warfare carried on by its graduates with their alma matters. But first, last and always, Harvard teaches its men their right to examine for themselves asserted facts, and thereby teaches them the dignity of the individual. It warns against the tyranny of dogma with its attendant loss of liberty. If any doubt the fruits of this, let them regard the records of Harvard men in all departments of our national life, public and private. This has resulted in a certain maturity of outlook, a certain aversion to collective thinking, an aversion that infuriates those...
...ability by Dr. James Hyslop, appears to have fallen on evil days and no longer to be actuated by pure and disinterested motives. For this reason, Dr. McDougall explained, it has been thought necessary in the interests of science to found another society which shall be committed to no dogma or hypothesis and whose business shall be to investigate and record facts by scientific methods and with the help of special sciences and of photography...