Word: atheism
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...dismay of the worthy rector is too close a copy of the early nineteenth century reaction in English universities. The stupid oppression of nearsighted authority drove Shelley from Oxford, when he published a pamphlet on atheism. It could not see that these were the growing pains of vigorous young intellect. It could not foresee that the orthodoxy whose purity they tried to maintain unattached by heresy, would pale gradually before the onslaught of the mind until these cherished tenets of theological metaphysics were held only in the background and with deepest reservations by their apostolic successors, until the science...
...Bryan, against the scientific spirit and religious heterodoxy of Harvard, are bound to find another salient of attack. Reverend George H. Thomas of Chicago sponsors the estimate that forty-four hundred eighty students out of forty-six hundred at the University of Tokio are atheists. The so-called atheism of Harvard, of perhaps a half dozen out of the entire student body, is utterly buried beneath this avalanche of revolt in Japan...
...marriage contract in particular. He became an atheist. Most Oxford men go through such phases, but Shelley was supersensitive and these seeming sane ideas crystallized into a philosophy. He became for life, with notable exceptions, vir sui judicii. The writing and distribution to the Dons of the Necessity of Atheism ended his Oxford sojourn with cataclysmic suddenness. Shelley was "sent down...
...true revolutionist is a man who is not afraid of blowing up, of resorting to a pitiless violence. He must not be restrained by any considerations that might keep him from resorting to violence; it is for this reason that the education of a revolutionist must be based on atheism...
...purpose sanctified the means. But purposes and objects are only relatively noble. There are intelligent people who believe in war as a spiritual Katharsis and who have held to that belief in spite of the years 1914 to 1918. And there are intelligent people who believe in communism and atheism and easy divorce and a num-ber of other creeds and panaceas which the Congregational and Baptist Churches would hardly countenance. If the teaching of one faith is justifiable, the teaching of any faith is justifiable and the question is simply one of majorities and minorities...