Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...geologist, Professor Mather finds no difficulty in accepting the theory of evolution, and believes that the apparent contradictions in the Bible to any such theory can be explained with simplicity. He believes that the only significance of such a work as Genesis is to present the spiritual truth about God and the origin of the universe, and that it should be regarded as a textbook of biology. He goes on to say, in the report of his evidence given at Dayton...
...image of God' cannot refer to hands or feet, heart, stomach, lungs. That may have been the conception of Moses. It certainly was not the conception of Christ, who said that God is spirit and proclaimed that man must worship him in truth. It is man's soul, his spirit, which is patterned after God the spirit...
...science have as their aim the discovery of facts. . . . After they have discovered truth, and not till then, do they consider what its moral implications may be. Thus far, and presumably always, truth, when found, is also found to be right, in the moral sense of the word...
...American people are in truth, forcing existence to become a continual observance of creeds. The gentleman of the smoking compartment must air his doctrine of motors and money, while the intellectual sniffs and tries to read his Proust in comfort. There can be no blended tastes, no unconventional tastes. The only individuality allowed is offered by inebriacy, and even that has its creed. Every action is timed and tried in the effort for an effect when the spotlight of public opinion is turned upon the individual. Not what one likes but what he must like, what is going to save...
...zeal shown by these eminent gentlemen for conforming to the truth is very laudable, but the surprising thing of course is that this zeal has been so long in manifesting itself. Why was not the word removed from the marriage service long ago? It became obsolete when the caveman's cudgel went out of fashion. For that matter why was it ever put in at all? Of course it found its way in at the instigation of some blundering male. But what man had the temerity to believe that exacting a woman's promise to obey would give...