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Founders of new religions are apt to announce that they have been sent by God, that their teaching is divinely inspired, themselves the definitive prophet. Not so Religionist Charles Francis Potter. Last week he hired a hall (Steinway) in Manhattan, packed it (capacity 244), turned away hundreds. Making no audible claims to prophetic succession, he announced "Humanism" and handed out prospectuses thereof...
...Religionist Potter did not even claim to be the originator of "Humanism." Said he: "A new religion has suddenly and simultaneously appeared in many quarters. . . . From California to New York, and even in India and Japan, Humanist groups are in process of formation, and every week brings fresh news of the growth of the new movement...
Only one of Religionist Potter's announced tenets was revolutionary. "Humanist" weddings, he said, would be quiet, simple. Couples would be encouraged to compose their own ceremony...
...lecture will he presented from the point of view of an archeologist rather than that of a religionist...
...late Alessandro Mussolini was not only a blacksmith but a revolutionary, an Internationalist, an anti-religionist, and a devout apostle of Bacchus...