Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it comes to religion Joseph Stalin is somewhat wistful. Although never actually ordained a priest, he was a theological student in his youth. He is the only Dictator alive today with a thorough knowledge of the contents of the Bible. Instead of being cremated, as tradition decrees for Communists, the Dictator's beloved second wife lies buried by his order in the consecrated ground of a historic Moscow convent (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932). Although active profession of atheism is the badge of a Communist, Joseph...
...office to see the schedule which is as follows: Professor Taylor in Emerson H at 12 continues his intellectual history of Europe by talking on fifth, sixth and seventh century notions of God and the universe. At 2 o'clock this afternoon Professor Tozzer talks on "Sex and Religion", 3rd floor Peabody Museum. A friend, who knows, tells me this will be exceedingly good. On Thursday at 11 Professor Clark speaks on Hinduism, Harvard 3; at 12 Dr. Sarton speaks on Early Greek Mathematics in Sever 26. Methinks there be much of interest here...
...divorce and the children to Methodist Eaton granted to Mrs. Eaton the privilege oi visiting her progeny unless she attempted to "instill her atheistic and communistic beliefs" in their minds. Decided the Advisory Master: "She frankly states that she no longer considers herself a Christian She looks on all religion as useless and entertains the deepest contempt for that of her husband...
...goes to Solovyev chiefly for the light which he sheds on Tolstoy, his inveterate opponent in religion, and on Dostoievsky. All three men must be studied if one wishes to understand the intellectual life of Tsarist Russia at the end of the XIXth century, which was dominated by Pan-Slavism and religiosity, with unperceived but strong currents of Marxism and anarchism. Solovyev's "Plato" first appeared in 1898, two years before his death, and it served to reinforce the philosophical opposition to materialism and positivism. Such disciples as he now retains are emigres in Paris and Prague. Bolshevism has swept...
...deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shams, scorn of all mummeries, a bitter, merciless pleasure in the hard facts. . . ." Oliver's loneliness may have arisen because he never realized that "all ladies are women," a discovery that Mario made in childhood. Profoundly religious in temperament, Oliver rejected religion because he considered divine revelations to be factually untrue, justified only on psychological and human grounds. Where Mario accepted the customs of any group in which he found himself, fought during the War without a thought of the justice or meaning of the conflict, ended happily and prosperously by conventional...