Word: religion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last year the lecture was given by Dr. E. W. Lyman, professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Union Theological Seminary in New York...
...religion, the professor gives us to understand, must secure its facts from science. Just why facts are necessary to religious concepts or just what facts we know outside the realm of science. Dr. Barnes has not seen fit to reveal. Most scientists put their primary interest in the observed conditions of life and are content to base their religion on then inmost individual thoughts. Now in his speech before a society of Free Thinkers Professor Barnes lays down the one and only "scientific" view of the cosmos...
...quite possible that he has a workable religion of his own. Most educated men have. But if the professor pretends to be a scientist, he might find it more tactful to confine his oratory to subjects on which he really does know the facts...
...burning of the Steel Car Company's shops in St. Joseph, Mo. By building steel passenger and freight cars away back in the 'eighties, Henry D. Perky felt that he was doing a great public service; just as years afterwards he believed in his biscuits as a religion and, in Conquistador spirit, persuaded the people of New England to eat them, as it were at the sword's point, sharpened by a scorn that startled these good people into submission...
...news: the first stock table, Wall Street stories (including swindles and names), police reports, scandals. He made a sensation of the murder of a famed courtesan. He pried into the doings of the top social set, which never accepted him. The Herald's stories rollicked with color. He treated religion as news?a fact which annoyed clergymen. He published the first ship news, had a sailboat go out to Montauk Point to meet incoming ships. He had correspondents in Washington, D. C., who did not stop at handouts...