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Whatever Works. In his search for that meaning, Hocking was willing to meet the pragmatists on their own ground. Though he rejected the principle that "whatever works is true," he regarded the negative statement that "whatever does not work is not true" as a valid test for any philosophy. In his first book, The Meaning of God in Human Experience, he boldly applied the test to religion...
...bringing the core of religion steadily closer to the reader. Then, suddenly, she gives out. The conclusion she wants to reach is that neither dollars nor Christian dogma can bridge the U.S.-Indian gap; there must be intermarriage between the two peoples and agreement that all religions are equally valid, equally tenable. It is sex which prevents her from putting over this conclusion properly. The old devil has hovered on the fringes all through Come, My Beloved, and when he hears the magic word "intermarriage," he hops boldly into the pulpit and converts earnest Missionary Buck into a thinly piping...
...current form, after two major rewritings, the Bricker Amendment says: 1) "A provision of a treaty which conflicts with this Constitution shall not be of any force or effect." 2) "A treaty shall become effective as internal law in the United States only through legislation which would be valid in the absence of treaty...
...Section 2 to all treaties indiscriminately, the amendment would undo what the Constitution's framers so carefully wrote. By requiring legislation before any treaty provision would take effect as internal law,* it would seriously slow up the processing of many common types of treaties. The "which would be valid" clause, a return to the spirit of the Articles of Confederation, would make the Federal Government less than sovereign...
...These actions apparently rise from a view that our national tradition of free expression is no longer valid; that censorship and suppression are needed to avoid the subversion of politics and the corruption of morals. We, as citizens devoted to the use of books . . . wish to assert the public interest in the preservation of the freedom to read...