Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foster Assailed...
...matter of regret that space should be given in your splendid magazine to advertise a book by R. F. Foster, The Coming Faith (TIME, Dec. 28). It goes without saying that a man who has written 78 books on "bridge and other games" could not be a trained scholar. One statement is evidently true: "R. F. Foster is not a theologian." The study of bis face indicates what Plato would call a "keen and narrow intelligence," which was also true of Mephistopheles. While the crass and unbaked author may not have the "slightest desire to go to heaven" nor fear...
According to an Iowa State Colege bulletin, Iowa farmers lost 525,000,000 in 1914 owing to weeds. R. F. Foster, famed card player, jotted this fact down; and it became recently the point of departure for a chapter in a book on religion. How many millions of dollars does society lose because of human weeds! So, with the most orthodox technique, he develops his subject...
...manner orthodox, Mr. Foster is in matter heretical. But even the heresy is simply orthodox agnosticism, which has nourished since science began to reach the masses. Mr. Foster's Coming Faith is simply a belief in the perfectibility of human nature through human intelligence?or, in two words, faith in man, neutrality towards a possible Supreme Power, denial of Christianity. But Mr. Foster would be the last to suggest that his book is a contribution to philosophy. It is written obviously for laymen by a layman...
...purpose of such a Federation as expressed in the articles adopted at the conference, are to "achieve a spirit of unity among students of the United States to give consideration to questions affecting student's interest"; to developed an "intelligent student opinion on questions of national importance"; and "to foster understanding among students of the world in furtherence of an enduring world peace." The appointment of a national committee to prepare for this federation marks the first move toward a national organization of this kind in the history of the United States...