Word: stratons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growth of this bastard offspring of the more decent journals. The mushroom development to a circulation of 100,000 in less than a year Bernarr MacFadden's "Evening Graphic", trenchantly dubbed the "Porno Graphic", is food for unpleasant thought. It gives some color of justification to Dr. John Roach Straton's arraignment of modern civilization. If in some respects one discerns signs of healthy progress in American life, surely here is a mark of decadence. The thesis which George Jean Nathan presented not long ago in one of his more thoughtful moments may possibly be correct. Although American taste...
...reason in religion is a fine thing, Dr. Straton pointed out, but beyond a certain point reason cannot go. "We are finite beings in an Infinity, and our finite minds cannot grasp the Infinite. We follow Reason as far as she goes, and from that point on Faith must take her place. If we fall in Faith, therefore, we do not broaden our lives, but narrow them...
...reply to Dudley Malone, who calls fundamentalism the "blind faith of bigots," and to its supporters as "leaders of the most sinister movement throughout the country," Dr. Straton held that his creed was simply "old-fashioned Christianity founded upon faith," and denounced Malone, Clarence Darrow, H. L. Mencken and all other "atheists and advocates of a degenerate cult" as leaders of that truly sinster movement, evolution...
Professor Clifford, a leader in the fight for evolution, was quoted as saying that men made and unmade gods, that God is but the glorification of Man. Dr. Straton tried to show that this creed results in an idolatrous worship of man; the worship of man by himself as God, and a degeneration of morals such as we saw resulting in the fall of the old Roman Empire...
...greatest wave of degeneracy and crime that has swept the world since the fall of the Roman Empire, and what is more, it is increasing at a staggering pace," thundered Dr. Straton. His statement he illustrated by statistics on murders, divorce cases, and pornographic periodicals perpetrated annually in this country alone...