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...Bishop of Ripon, however, preaching in Leeds the following Sunday, made a protest far broader than simple anti-Darwinism. Said he of Science in general: "With all this new mastery over nature, man has not seemed really to be advancing his own cause. . . . Dare I even suggest, at the risk of being lynched by some of my hearers, that the sum of human happiness, outside of scientific circles, would not necessarily be reduced if, for say ten years, every physical and chemical laboratory were closed and the patient and resourceful energy displayed in them transferred to recovering the lost...
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...Belmont, Consuelo's mother, that she, Mrs. Belmont, coerced her daughter. "I know some of the Vanderbilts personally. . . . There was no hint from any quarter that the bride was under compulsion." Later, amid applause of the Church of England Assembly, convened in London, the Bishop of Ripon bodingly warned: "Our church ought to be an obstacle to realization of the Papal dream. We have recently seen the degree of modern opportunism liable to be reached by a church which allows itself to become politically minded. . . . [The annulment] is an insult, whether calculated or not, to an old communion...
...Major, who is principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford, England, is famed for his attack on the conservative wing of the church...
...fifth of a series of lectures on "English Modernism,--its Origin, Aims, and Methods" will be given this evening by the Rev. Henry D. A. Major D.D., Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford. The subject of this evening's lecture will be "Modernism and the Creeds." The lecture is open to all and will be given at 8 o'clock in Emerson...