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...Menorah Society: Mr. H. M. Kallen '03 to speak on "Hebraism and the Modern Point of View" in Phillips Brooks House...
Each religion has its keynote; that of Confucianism was order, of Zoroastrianism conflict, of Hinduism reality, and of Hebraism, holiness. Every religion is the idealism of the thought of the nation that brought it forth. Therefore to understand the religion of a nation one must study that nation's characteristics. The Hebrews were originally a nomadic tribe and as such possessed a nomadic cult, which had much in common with the later monotheistic idea. Like all nations, the Hebrews had two sides to their national character. The world y ambition and soldiery qualities of the Maccabees and the like...
...classes, The writings on English society were first taken up. In them one sees Arnold's critical faculty at its best. Culture was Arnold's god. The Greeks put a great emphasis on knowledge, the Jews on conduct. The two tendencies, the one towards Hellenism, and the other towards Hebraism, are visibly at work in modern society and Arnold's ideas of culture made room for both. Arnold was convinced, however, that English society he braized too much, and needed men to hellenize, to cultivate the intellect. "The Bible," he said "was not the only book. No man who knew...
...writings has probably been stronger at Harvard than the writings of any other living Englishman, and yet at this critical moment of Harvard's history we seem to have forgotten the moral of all his teachings. At no time and in no place has the conflict between Hellenism and Hebraism reached the height it has reached at the present moment and in Cambridge. If "sweetness and light," if the power of "seeing this as they really are" is at present the great need of England, how much more are these things lacking in America, in the land of practical ideas...