Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please cancel my subscription at once. I can no longer tolerate your sneering articles regarding Catholic persons and affairs and I do not understand how any self-respecting Catholic can remain your subscriber. Your articles under RELIGION this week are an insult to nine-tenths of the Christian world for nine-tenths of that world is still Catholic. Your policy is a poor...
...metals under the influence of ultraviolet light, the polarization of light from incandescent surfaces, the extension of the ultraviolet spectrum, the laws of reflection of gas molecules, the Brownian movement in gasses and the absorption of X-rays. But, like Scientist Steinmetz, he sees no conflict between science and religion. The blood of staunch, God-fearing New Englanders runs in his veins. His father was a Congregational minister. Queried about the cosmic mind, Dr. Millikan retorted: "Why not say 'God'? . . . I have never known a thinking man who did not believe in God. . . . Science without religion obviously...
...public, but the church. A performance of this kind is fair notice to all ... of the desperate plight in which the leaders of the church feel themselves to be." The Christian Century also said: "For the sake of the child herself, for the sake of the public conception of religion, for the sake of the church, this crass exploitation should be stopped...
Writing criticism for the Chicago Post he called for an American Lucretius to transform the new miracles of science into a new religion. He moved Athens to Iowa, in his imagination, and outlined a Sacred Book. Then he was the Pericles of Provincetown, creating the creative mood in others by his prodigious vitality, sympathies, humor, dreams. He remade his own house with ax, saw and chisel (building in an elevator when his wife's heart ailed) ; made beach sand yield greens; painted, modeled, wrote; created a new national theatre. On the wall of his house he made a fresco...
...Religion necessary...