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...full understanding of these Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates who will not affirm the existence of God, considered as a group, lies in the fact that about 85 per cent of them will not deny His existence, either--that is, they are predominantly agnostics who look equally askance at the theist and the atheist who both say more than they could possibly know. This is reflected in the factors they most frequently check as having principally contributed to their present religious attitude: "the fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept of God to account satisfactorily for natural...
...parts." In the same way, different national cultures help towards the unity of international culture; men of good will who dream of nothing but ideological and international unanimity are, Eliot warns, culture's worst enemies. In the Eliotian western world, Catholic must continue to debate with Protestant, theist with atheist, class with class, creating a "Christendom . . . within [whose] unity there should be an f endless conflict between ideas...
Delegates were mindful of the recent fracas in Unitarian ranks over the ousting of Pastor Stephen Fritchman for following the Communist line too closely in his editing of the monthly Christian Register (TIME, May 26). There had also been critical murmurs from "theist" Unitarians against the ultra-humanist views of President Frederick May Eliot's administration. But the agenda proved too crowded for these controversies. Indeed, there was too much to say and too little time in which to say it. Once as many as five delegates contended for the microphone...
Only a short time ago we laid to rest a leader in science who declared himself to be at the same time an evolutionist, a theist and a believer in the Nicene creed. Gray was like Darwin in respect to the religious use which he made of evolution. The judgment of our soundest minds is that theism is to suffer at the hands of evolution, not destruction, but reconstruction. Darwin admitted that no one understood the philosophy of evolution better than the late great botanist. Gray had stronger grasp on philosophy than Darwin. Gray was gifted with a clearer insight...
...inconsistent with the requirements of a liberal education. That Harvard is waking from this indifference, which so many of those who have never been in Cambridge, especially the editors of religious journals have bitterly decried, is a good sign. Certainly indifference is worse than either atheism or theism. Theist and atheist alike may well complain...