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"The future of the country is in the hands of disciplined people. Those who can subordinate a present desire to further discipline are the people who will control the destiny of the world. ... It was a small group which made Germany Nazi, Italy Fascist and Russia Communist. . . Less than 100...
Fond of setting precedents is the 111-year-old First Unitarian Congregation of Rochester, N. Y., where the theory of evolution was first expounded from a U. S. pulpit, the first Woman's Rights Convention met in 1848, and interfaith services were pioneered. Last week the First Unitarian Congregation...
To churchmen everywhere, the meeting was doubly historic: it paved the way for a possible reconciliation of science and religion, separated 80 years ago by the conflict between six-day Creation and the theory of evolution. Never had so many famed scientists of no religious affiliation answered a call to...
Sumner started his professional life as an Episcopal clergyman. But nine years after his graduation from Yale he went back there as professor of political and social science, started compiling a great mass of anthropological data which comprises the bulk of Folkways. In it he covered the origin and evolution...
There was John Fiske, who knew all the sciences and half-a-dozen languages before he entered Harvard where he added Hebrew, Sanskrit, Gothic, Icelandic, Rumanian, Dutch. "His methodical, orderly mind moved like a stone-crusher, reducing the boulders of thought to a flow of gravel that anyone could build...