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...religion is its well-marked individuality, and set forth the chief agencies that are instrumental in moulding a child's cenception of religion. In the following two lectures the broad realm of orthodoxy, which even extends to politics, social customs, and economics, was forcefully propounded, and the decay of authority was made evident by examples of the power of the parent over the child, the husband over the wife, and employer over the employee. Dwelling on the responsibility of the church last Monday, Professor Zueblin stated that the duty of religion is to moralize the six wants which make towards...
Professor Charles Zueblin, of the University of Chicago, addressed a large audience in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon, in the third lecture of his series on "A Democratic Religion," taking for his main theme "The Decay of Authority...
Professor Zueblin in his characteristic manner showed by a brief survey of history from feudal times, how authority in its various phases has gradually but markedly decayed. The decay is evident in the authority of the parent over the child, in the authority of the husband over his wife, in the power of the employer over the employee. It is but a logical, natural, and desirable growth. What is now desired to complete the advance is an increase in spiritual authority, for which the prospect is bright...
Again in religion the same decay is apparent. The light is gradually dawning upon us by the spread of learning and the growth of individual criticism. The light is gradually dawning upon us by the spread of learning and the growth of individual criticism. The truth is gradually replacing creed and dogma, and we are no longer bound by the letters of a back. Christ, whether regarded as divine, or human, or mythical, nevertheless stands revealed to us as a great example to be followed through all generations. He has left his impression upon us, an undying impression which ever...
...sixth century, said Mr. Murray, the pressure of the Persian army on the Ionic coast, caused the literary, as well as the military, supremacy to pass from Ionia to Attica, and as a result, the authentic recitation of the Iliad was also transferred. About this time the decay of the epic and the birth of tragedy marked the beginning of a new epoch...