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...heresy, he leaves a pulpit where for six years he has preached with the bold courage of his broad convictions. Today he is probably the newest and the greatest force in modern religious thinking and as such he comes in contact with the stern limits of the Presbyterian dogma...
...What are my crimes and that of my Government? We are laymen and we are fighting for laicism, which is not an aggressive doctrine. We stand for freedom of conscience and we protest when in this 20th Century an attempt is made in the name of dogma to constrain conscience and when we are told, as our ancestors were told in the Middle Ages, that Science and Liberty are idols...
Tariff Reform. Canadian Liberals, like their elder brothers in Britain, are confirmed free traders, but here the analogy has to be reversed. Protection is as much of an accepted political dogma as is Free Trade in the Mother Country, with this great difference: a swing from Free Trade to Protection in Britain would not have the immediate consequences that a swing from Protection to Free Trade would have in Canada; for, in the latter case, the country would be thrown open to the exploitation of the U. S. mass production magnates, against whom the comparatively juvenile industrialists of Canada could...
Instead of so airy and fragile an educative purpose, about as comprehensible as pure theology, it is plain that the aim of education is not to implant in young intellects any given set of dogmas--even the very interesting dogmas of the dogma-hating Mr. Mencken. Education does not ignore the issues that confront the modern world, but, avoiding the ex cathedra dictation of belief, tries to lead the student to reason for himself, to cull and consider to become a thinking atom in a difficult universe of conflicting purposes...
Before Harvard audiences he has emphasized his super-creedal ideal. He has believed that a new era is at hand, in which traditional religion is breaking through its hard chrysalis of dogma and coming forth a changing, living faith in harmony with a changing, living world. For him, dogmas can not contain it. Creeds may fit it for the moment, but for a moment only. The aspirations of the new man rise higher; knowledge increases; thought advanced through an ever broadening vista: with the result that dogma and creed have ceased to express adequately for the new generation what they...