Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...efficiency by mere inefficiency. To light a cigarette, stretch one's legs on the desk, and indulge in aimless, endless talk leads to wisdom no more than does the mechanical taking of notes or the frenzied cramming for an examination. We should watch lest the tutorial method degrade the process of learning into a form of intellectual journalism; in practice it should involve serious work and surely as much preparation in the way of reading and thinking on the part of the student as any other of his academic activities...
...Another difficulty arises from our present limitations of knowledge. If man has evolved from other forms of animal life by the continuous process of evolution, it is asked how can there be any difference between him and them? How can we believe that he has an immortal soul...
...idea of evolution does not dethrone the idea of God in any reasonable mind, for evolution is not a power, not a force; it is a process a method. God is a power, a force: He necessarily uses processes and methods in displaying His power and exerting force...
...There is the widespread misconception that if one accepts the evolutionary process as the method which God used, he will find himself in a moral dilemma. Regardless of sect or creed, all followers of Christ must accept His teaching that the lay of life is love, that service to others is the true guiding principle, that self-sacrifice, even to death, is the best trait a man can display...
...Knowledge and mystery exist side by side mystery does not invalidate the facts. Men of science are working on those very problems. They have not learned--and may never learn how God breathed a living soul into man's body. If they should discover that process, and the method used, God will still be just as great a power...