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Malraux's life is a saga of modern godless man in search of himself. He has lived it more intensely, explored it more actively, expressed it more eloquently than any of his contemporaries. Still in his teens, he left his Roman Catholic faith; since then he has been a religious man in search of a religion. The search has carried him wherever men's souls were tried in war, wherever men's souls were expressed in art. He calls it the search for "the honor of being a man." Always he poses the humanist's anguished...
This is the place to which this tormented, restless man of intellect and of action has come in his quest through the godless pantheon of the Enlightenment. To André Malraux, man's hope, often betrayed, always risen again, is still in man. It is a gallant position, but perilously exposed, and Malraux seems to know it. "The next century's task will be." says Malraux, "to rediscover its gods...
...Borodin emerged as a young "Red technician." a microbiologist trained in Novocherkassk in the Cauca sus. During the first Red famine, he had inadvertently eaten meat which turned out to be the fried flesh of murdered chil dren. He had lectured in a church changed into a "Club of Godless Science" and learned that freedom is merely "perceived necessity." He was soon attracted to the secret police "as an interesting state institution." After the Chekists honored him with the title of "scientific consultant," he grew especially fond of a line from their song- "Do not trust your friends" (he thought...
...Association's new American Bar Center in Chicago. Said he: "It is fitting that we have this dedicatory service in a house of God [i.e., the University of Chicago chapel]. Here we give notice to all that, in the world struggle between the forces of freedom and the godless totalitarian state, we rededicate ourselves to the principle that God's way is our way. It is [also fitting] that the site for our home [adjoins] one of the great universities of the world ... a constant reminder to us [to] insist upon man's right to knowledge...
...outlines of the Wesley story, and shows Wesley, in a series of episodic scenes, developing from a pious moppet learning to read Genesis to a black-robed Oxonian distributing bread to the poor. Wesley's adventures in the colony of Georgia, where he had a commission to instruct godless Indians, are ticked off in a snatch of dialogue, but his search for a divine revelation that would give him "the inward witness" which lies at the heart of Methodism gets serious and moving treatment...