Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have thought that I think it possible to make people pious by university compulsion--a ludicrous idea for even a professor to be supposed to hold. What I was really talking about, of course, was the absurdity of regarding any man as educated who does not understand both that religion, like science and art, is a racially valid technic for the discovery of truth, and also something of what that technic involves. Even an undergraduate journalist ought, it seems to me, to have been able to see that the two contentions are quite distinct...
Grunted Lawyer Clarence Darrow, denying a report that he had joined a Humanist society (TIME, Sept. 26): "I don't take any stock in organized religion. Everybody knows that. I haven't joined up with any organization, so far as I remember. But I'm in sympathy with the Humanist movement and I'm just as liable to join them...
Professor Bernard Iddings Bell, of Columbia University, virtually charges in the September Atlantic Monthly that student indifference to religion is the fault of university faculties. To illustrate his contention Professor Bell relates how the Student Council at Harvard recommended in 1925 that "a new kind of required course be made available which would include the study, not merely of philosophy, but also of religion." The writer believes that the Harvard Faculty actually defeated the purpose of the recommendation. He says, "The new course has indeed been added to the curriculum, but it is only a half course, and instead...
...students need to have religious understanding crammed into them by ukase, and he further assumes that students will benefit spiritually by enforced religious discipline. The idea that the sum total of a large number of people can all have that conception of and feeling toward a Delty which is religion, is patently absurd. Those familiar with the history of English-speaking peoples, from the days of Chaucer to our own, know that there has always been a large amount of definite irreligious even under an established church. There are at all times large groups of people who apparently have...
...problems present a confused tangle of issues, political and religious, imperial and native, which serves as background to Gandhi's personality. For five and a half days Gandhi has fasted in the interests of his twin ideals, a united and independent India, and the greatness of the Hindu religion. Despite an Anglo-Saxon mistrust of dramatic heroism the ordinary observer is following Gandhi's struggle with admiration for the idealist willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes to be right...