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...same idea, proceed to write about it in exactly the same way, it is not necessarily plagiarism, collusion or telepathy. Some ideas are in the air, and the air is free to all. Storm Jameson's In the Second Year will be called the English version of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here, because Author Lewis' book appeared in the U. S. first. But both were written at about the same time, and most discerning readers will consider Storm Jameson's by far the better...
...gives himself more latitude with Mrs. Alden, and with old Nathaniel Alden, Oliver's millionaire uncle. They could have stepped out of Sinclair Lewis in their smugness, their fear and hate of the world, their lust for propriety. Two of a kind, again, though utterly different from the former, are Mario van der Weyer and Jim Darnley, the skipper of Peter Alden's yacht. Frankly sensual both, romantic and intelligent, the line between them is one solely of birth and breeding...
Born and half-bred an Episcopalian (he taught Sunday School, went to church every day in Lent), Upton Sinclair soon graduated into a more intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian...
...there Free Will? Absolutely yes! says Upton Sinclair. Is there a God? "I can't prove to you by reason that there is a God, and I can't explain His ways to you-all the cruelties and blind waste of this universe. But this I can surely say: that it is better to be happy than sad, better to be active than impotent." He admits that he has taken a good deal on faith: "I have made my ethical code out of the hunger and thirst after social righteousness. Such a formula makes life comparatively simple...
Though he remains an unorthodox agnostic, for all his optimistic idealism, Upton Sinclair thinks there is much good in Coueism and Christian Science, much that is unfathomable in spiritualism. From Coue he evolved his own cure for insomnia, an endlessly repeated: "God is here, and God is now. God is alive, and God is real. God is all, and God is love. God is my Father, and God is my Friend. God is keeping me, and God is helping me." Though the Christian Science Monitor effectively opposed him in last year's California campaign, he tells how a Christian...