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...year he took from these controversies and gave to his translation of the Bible, marvelous as a piece of literary and artistic work, the parent of modern literature...
...division because we arrive at our knowledge by two processes-knowledge of outward things coming from observation; knowledge of inward things from personal consciousness or experience. Philosophy has sometimes endeavored to establish unity by denying one or the other of these processes; thus we have idealism and materialism. What modern thought is endeaving to do is to establish a unity of all, material and immaterial...
...Modern theological thought affirms that man is not dual; man is a power that is using a physical organism. Immortality is not something that is going to be, but something that is. Creation is the expression of God's own nature, and we are beginning to think in the ology, not of a God that sits apart from nature, but of a God who is everywhere a pervasive spirit, omnipresent in all nature. The uniformity of natural law is but the habit of God, the method in which he acts. And so there is no distinction between the natural...
...most important of all the tendencies of modern theological thought is that it unifies God and humanity. God, who is immanent in natural forces, is also immanent in the human soul. Religion is not something apart from man; rather it is indissolubly associated with his whole being. It is right living-the life of God in the soul...
...next annual convention of the Modern Language association will be held at Harvard during the Christmas holidays of this year. Announcements of papers that will be presened have reached the secretary of the convention from Professors Hunt (Princeton), Gummere (Haverford), Wright (Middlebury), Primer (Providence), Tolman (Ripon), Gerber (Earlham), Schmidt-Wartenberg (University of Deseret), Kent (University of Tennessee), Grandgent (Boston), Matzke (Bowdoin), Marcou (University of Michigan), Dodge (Columbia). Precise dates and definite place of the meeting will be given in the programme which will be issued shortly before the convention...