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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Religionist Potter did not even claim to be the originator of "Humanism." Said he: "A new religion has suddenly and simultaneously appeared in many quarters. . . . From California to New York, and even in India and Japan, Humanist groups are in process of formation, and every week brings fresh news of the growth of the new movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Humanism | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...considers his career finds it an organic, continually expanding entity. A graduate in 1864, he returned to teach Philosophy in 1872, and assumed in 1889 the wider duties of the Alford Professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity. Through the period of his teaching, he wrote works on philosophy, education, and English, with the concrete directness of a popularizer of knowledge who could still retain dignity. This attitude was progressive; an ideal of both the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITH HIGHEST HONOR | 10/17/1929 | See Source »

Apropos of same, may I not state the fact, of no particular significance but probably interesting to many, that Francis Scott Key, who, while a prisoner of war, penned those immortal lines, was, in religion, a Roman Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...entire globe," he said, "is being embraced in a commercial order determined by physical science and obscuring for many the idea of a living God, while psychologists are putting forward insight into human behavior as the basis of a code of conduct instead of the principles derived from religion. "What manner of church is it that can appeal to souls living in this age? It is only a worshipping, teaching, practicing, creative church whose members are prepared to mark themselves off from all outsiders by a different manner of life affecting all their financial, domestic, civic and social relations, forcing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lawnmarket Reunion | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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