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...because of its attitude towards the individual. A large part of its book is taken up with facts supporting this contention. In the course of his discussion he is led naturally to the statement--that we never got the Reformation and we never had Protestantism! He proceeds to indict the churches on the charge of interpreting religion in terms of an out-worn theology--the literal interpretation of the Bible. He is ready to agree that theology is essential to religion, but wants a constant religion and a progressive theology! His Religion, he describes as Faith in Life itself...
...Indiana grand jury was impaneled eleven months ago to find out. It failed to indict. Another grand jury likewise failed, being discharged prematurely when one of the jurors reported having been offered a bribe...
...recent and regrettable death by his own hands of a Princeton sophomore raises the number of student suicides since January to twenty-six. In suite of the fact that his action was probably due in the main to ill health, and can hardly be said to indict Princeton's social or educational system, the already much discussed whys and wherefores of the epidemic have revived...
...Small. Last fortnight they also had a special grand jury sitting to expose wholesale ballot-stealing, box-stuffing, gun play, voting the names of dead men, kidnaping, false returns and intimidation by hirelings of the Republican machine in grimy precincts of tough Chicago. This jury found fraud enough to indict 44 judges, clerks and election officials...
...what if there follows a little matter of probation for the whole class? Every freshman who has ever been to preparatory or high school knows that Edmund Burke demonstrated long ago that you can't indict a whole nation, or a whole class either for that matter...