Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says Dr. Niebuhr, the unreasoning impulse and brutality of human beings which makes collectivism the only safe economic solution. On the other hand, communist collectivism cannot be the last word; the classless state of Marx, with its absence of conflict may be a symbol in a revolutionary religion, but it is only a symbol. Communism, which may have to oppose Christianity as an institution, will have to revive it as a doctrine, and as a way of life, after its own victory is accomplished...
...Niebuhr's survey of the breakdown of capitalism is able, and sometimes brilliant. But it does not contain the real body of his contribution to our political understanding. It is in his keen criticism of Marxism as a religion (for it is a religion, whatever its pretensions to pure science may be), and in his treatment of its relation, doctrinal and actual, to other and older religions that Dr. Niebuhr is on the most fruitful ground...
...House of Bishops issued a pastoral affirming that: "We are bound by every solemn obligation to wage unremitting war against war. . . . Love of country must be qualified by love of all mankind: patriotism is subordinate to religion...
...protracted suit of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce had a notable effect in speeding up British justice. Housing reform was the chief social interest of his last ten years. "The reforms of the people's habitations must precede all other reforms; without it all other reforms must fail. Neither religion nor education will make any way until a government shall have discharged its first obligation and secured to the people homes instead of polluted dens...
...Harvard professors will entertain Alexander Troyanovsky, Russian Ambassador to the United States, on Thursday, March 8, before a dinner which will be given for him. Edward Burlingame Hill '94, professor of Music, will be host to Mr. Troyanovsky at lunch; William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, and Mrs. Hocking will entertain the visiting diplomat at a tea in the afternoon...