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From Shanghai, too, came reports reflecting the unbelief of foreigners 575 miles from the scene of battle in the strength of China's new armies. The facts, however, were bright as a bayonet...
...Mann, as his name suggests, is a patient, courageous believer buffeted by an angry sea of unbelief, a symbol of the rocky virtues that keep man's head above water. Life for Job and his wife, Katie, has been secure and happy until age, illness and the Great Depression force them to apply for "public assistance." Thence he is plunged into a world he never knew -a world of hate, whores, idiots, stinking tenements and the loathed "Welfares." It is a world well known to Caroline Slade. When her mother read a preceding novel, The Triumph of Willie Pond...
...number as a whole does leave one pretty clear impression. The writers are, in various degrees of intensity, all espousing a Cause, all embracing a Truth, all anxious to rescue their fellows from aimlessness and unbelief. They would probably all agree that Liberalism Is Bankrupt (though here I may be doing them too much injustice). At any rate, what Mr. Chase calls "yesterday's scientific truth" rouses them to no enthusiasm. Whether this yearning for humanism, salvation, discipline, the Perfect State, social duty, practical reason, a faith that can move mountains, Wisdom, and the rest is a sign of youth...
...touch of irony attaches to the amusing unbelief of our esteemed contemporaries from Missouri and to their strange unwillingness to be alive to the obvious In view of their impressive reasons for skepticism--several conversations with undergraduates--we call to their attention the statement of an eminent philosopher that doubt itself is irrational unless grounded on positive evidence...
...Religious life in our colleges today is quite healthy, I should say. Youth has always been a period of questioning and doubting, and there is bound to be some unbelief among students. Later, life with its broader experiences brings sounder views...