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Carrying on a tradition of over two centuries, the annual public Dudleian Lecture on natural and revealed religion will be delivered today by Reinhold Niebuhr, of the Union Theological School, as part of the visitation day ceremonies of the Divinity School...
Approximately 100 clergymen and alumni are expected to attend the festivities, which open at 10:30 o'clock with the annual assembly of the Alumni Association. The meetings will continue throughout the day, and will feature, in addition to Niebuhr's address, the annual Ingersoll Lecture by Douglas Van Streere, associate professor of Philosophy at Haverford College...
...Romanticism, the "science" of racism, a vague economic socialism, and Volk collectivity," Wagner is analyzed to show his peculiar position as forerunner of the Nazis. Their idealism is precisely the "soaring into metapolitics" Wagner wrote of. This theory of Wagner Viereck holds in common with Jacques Barzun and Reinhold Niebuhr, and is backed up by Hitler's own words. Nazi metapolitics, however, though a definite creed, runs across the grain of western life. It exalts irrationality and denounces reason...
...Nature and Destiny of Man-Reinhold Niebuhr...
Afterwards, intent Dr. Niebuhr found that Edinburgh had had its first air-raid alarm, that four Nazi planes had been potted overhead in the Firth of Forth Bridge raid while he spoke on man's destiny...