Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only laws, state and national, have infringed liberty of expression. Much worse, a marked and very serious tendency has developed in our schools and colleges seriously to limit the free and frank statement of one's opinions and the reasons for holding them. This spirit is epitomized in the recent statement issued by the Board of Superintendents of the Department of Education of New York City, which definitely sets forth the theory that "a teacher is no longer at liberty to freely write, speak, or publish his opinions. We cannot concede that intellectual freedom is synonymous with insolence or vulgarity...
...true that Dominico Theotocopuli was mad. It is true that he was astigmatic, for one must believe that sanity and sight lie in numbers, and certainly he did not see or think as did any other man of his time. He saw the spirit in the body, shapes of the mind in every earthly shape. Only a few saints and mathematicians have understood as he did; they, too, were mad. Heads in which a cone is buried; elongated muscles and loins growing up through the paint in mystery like weeds or flowers; skies that break, trees that kneel, faces...
December 3 The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Relation to our knowledge of the Creative Process...
December 17 The Spirit and the Fellowship of the Church...
Canon Raven has chosen as his subject. "The Dectrine of the Holy Spirit in the Light of Psychology and mysticism...