Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Osten," declared that it was the cry of the German barbarians to push on to Osten, while another simply explained it as being the mouth of the western-world Nile, so called because of its fertility. Other men answered that "Drang nach Osten" was a title of Charlemagne, the religion of the Huns, and a name applied to the Merovingian Kings because they couldn't even ride a horse, and were worthless...
...field lead him to accept unquestioningly fundamental principles. But this uncritical attitude is fatal. For it is exactly in this vagueness about fundamental principles that lie the gravest dangers to modern civilization. The twentieth century has in large measure rejected the hypotheses on which the Victorians built their philosophy, religion, and ethics, but it has determined on no course of its own. Unless the universities search into the bases of beliefs in an effort to guide the nation out of the present maze of indecision, they are failing in their greatest trust. Revaluation may have been overworked as a theme...
...Vicente Blasco Ibanez. Several Deputies stood off physical assaults with drawn revolvers, retained just enough sense not to fire. Along about the middle of the struggle, the National Assembly voted 227 to 41 to adopt as Article III of Spain's new Constitution (full text): "No official State religion shall exist...
...form a part of their routine. I would not bar the book from the house to save myself this trouble, but I think it is vastly improved by the omission of such a picture, for a great many children today are brought up without ever hearing of God and religion. Mine are among them...
Julian, sensitive adolescent and only son, is fond of both his parents and hates to see them quarrel. His mother has abandoned love for religion; his father is in love with young Novelist Pauline but cannot get a divorce to marry her. Julian himself is enamored of Hildegarde, young thing of his own age; they agonize together over a world that was not molded very near to their hearts' desire. For a while it looks as though everything would go badly for everybody. Pauline tries to break off her affair with Julian's father when...