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Neither Nymph nor Virgin. Soft-voiced, schoolmarmish Margaret Knight, who has no children of her own, undertook to advise "humanist parents" what to tell their offspring about God. "We can tell them," she said, "that everyone believed at one time, and some people believe now, that there are two great powers in the world: a good power called God, who made the world and who loves human beings . . . and a bad power called the Devil, who is opposed to God and who wants people to be unhappy and bad. We can tell them that some people still believe this...
...unthinkable that in the terrible moment of suspension between life and death, they might also have a hankering for a Reality that is wider than music and higher than Santayana's quiet despair. It would be an injustice . . . to force upon them the inhumanity of "A Humanist Funeral Service." They will get a much more sympathetic treatment from a Christian friend who will mumble a requiescat in pace over their bones...
...humanist funeral service, Lamont hopes, will purge the business of death of "sentimentality, showiness, and somberness...
...ceremonial ado about a body that has just passed into Nothing? But in practice, even atheists have a hankering for music and a few well-chosen words, and this pressing problem has just been taken up by Corliss Lamont, 52, the wealthy fellow traveler. In a pamphlet entitled A Humanist Funeral Service (Horizon Press; $1.00), Lamont paradoxically proposes some comforting last rites for unbelievers. In 1932, Lamont wrote his Columbia Ph.D. thesis on "The Illusion of Immortality," and he still insists that "death is the final end of the individual conscious personality," but he now feels that "rituals concerned with...
...well as being an administrator, Hanford is a humanist. He faced practically every conceivable undergraduate situation; nothing was new to him. Yet his philosophy made him consider each situation afresh because there was different person involved. Members of the administrative board used to smile expectantly while awning Hanford's word on what second to be a certain case for expulsion. He would lean back in his back at the head of the table, a smile on his face, and say, "Gentlemen, lee's go over the facts again. We've got to be sure we are being fair...