Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonders that TIME'S Religion editor felt that the book Priestess of the Occult rated 2½columns of its valuable space [TIME, Nov. 11]. Gertrude Marvin Williams' book so obviously is written from a biased point of view that it will be surprising to many of her readers to discover that men of such proven intellectual caliber as Thomas Edison, Sir William Crookes, and Alfred Russell Wallace were members of The Theosophical Society. ... If we are not to class them as dupes, then their association with Madame Blavatsky would argue that the Williams portrait...
...Member of Parliament form 1927 to 1931, deplored the present day materialistic economic system which deprives the mass man of the opportunity to develop his personality and spiritual powers. "The modern mass production system," stated Wellock, "which makes factory workers robots, takes away their individuality, by-passes culture and religion, and leads them to work like machines and play like devils...
...Human culture might be described a as state of perpetual and not necessarily related crises. We must not assume, for example that since there is a deep seated crisis in economics that there is also one in religion...
...These two communions have a common origin, common articles of religion, a comparable form of government. That is a good deal. We could hardly ask for more as a basis of union. Some nine years ago, at the same time that the Episcopalians made overtures to the Presbyterian Church, a similar invitation was extended to the Methodists. Since the three branches of Methodism were busy consummating their own union, it seemed wise to postpone action. . . . But now that the Methodists are happily unified there can be no further reason for delay...
Biographer Simmons' sympathetic treatment of Tolstoy's religion of "nonresistance to evil," love for the common people, and individual self-perfection by undogmatic Christianity make it seem the titanic moral effort of an intellectual child, caught in the determinism of society and history upon which his own War and Peace was based. The Russian Orthodox Church excommunicated him; the Communist Lenin wrote incisively: "On the one hand, an extraordinarily powerful, direct and sincere protest against social lies and hypocrisy; on the other, a Tolstoyan, that is, a wornout, historical sniveler called the Russian intellectual, who, publicly beating...