Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Religion...
Scientists are not usually interested in philosophy or religion. Professional men, they are apt to find their profession exclusively engrossing. But Biologist John Scott Haldane, of Oxford University, is not content to breathe his last in the special atmosphere of his laboratory. He has attained a comprehensive view of life, reached "matured conclusions." The University of Glasgow invited him to lecture. He did, and this book, ambitious, anti-popular, significant, is the result. In it Biologist Haldane attempts to "bring consistency into the inheritance which has come to me individually in science, philosophy, and religion...
...progressively revealing the mechanism of life. In the light of actual progress this is quite untrue, and can only be described as claptrap. . . . Science brings us to a point at which we require more than Science." Biologist Haldane takes philosophy seriously. To him, philosophy is only another word for religion. But orthodox religion will not find much in common with such statements as this: "Belief of any kind in what is supernatural seems to me to imply a faltering in religious faith. . . . Men of science . . . will never accept any belief in supernatural interference. Belief in the self-consistency...
...article would be complete without mentioning that football is to the English student a game to be played and enjoyed two or three times a week, and not a religion the celebration of whose rites occupy the chief time, energy, and thought of its acolytes for weeks and months! There is much to be said for each point of view, but as a player I enjoyed the English variety more. On the other hand, the American attitude has in it far greater possibilities for learning the joy of sacrificing for a cause
Sample epigrams: "Jealousy and love are both instinctive emotions, but religion has decreed that jealousy is a virtuous emotion to which the community ought to lend support, while love is at best excusable...