Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question, "Why the missionary need leave his home to convey his message?" . . . Resurging nationalism is a danger to missionizing in the East. Christianity should not be identified with Western life but presented in its "universal capacity." Nor should Christianity attack the non-Christian systems of religion; it should understand them, associate itself with their "kindred elements." Christianity's chief argument is not with Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism but with "materialism, secularism, naturalism . . . the philosophies of Marx, Lenin, Russell. The case that must now be stated is the case for any religion...
...What do you think a ten-year-old boy can say?" he roared in French. "What clo you expect a child like him to understand by your questions...
...Erie at .$30 a month, from which he rapidly skyrocketed to be general auditor of the road. Hulking young Morosini with his flamboyant manner, his bullet head, his colossal mustaches (alia Vittorio Emmamiele} and his stiletto was the kind of man Gould, the unscrupulous railway pirate, could understand. Before long he was Gould's "secretary" (armed bodyguard), finally a full fledged Gould partner-and then how the money rolled in! He married, built a great rambling mid-Victorian palazzo at Riverdale-on-Hudson known as "Elmhurst." This he crammed from cellar to garret with costly knicknacks. There were...
...Governor of Massachusetts in an interview last night. "Politics and the administration of city, state, and national government need the foresight and culture that the college man will carry to them. The college man has had the best advantages of education, and with that background his ability to understand public questions should be greatly increased. It is this understanding, culture, and sense of fair play that the college bestows upon a man that, when taken into political life, will render politics a cleaner institution in our civilization...
...seems to have thought that I think it possible to make people pious by university compulsion--a ludicrous idea for even a professor to be supposed to hold. What I was really talking about, of course, was the absurdity of regarding any man as educated who does not understand both that religion, like science and art, is a racially valid technic for the discovery of truth, and also something of what that technic involves. Even an undergraduate journalist ought, it seems to me, to have been able to see that the two contentions are quite distinct...