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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume40 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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eatures of many intense peopleswho have- cherished dogmaticreligions. Greece gave the world anoble ethical and metaphysicalphilosophy and a great art, butGreece was not great enough toappreciate Socrates or noble enoughto refuse to slay that teacher of exaltedethics. Rome gave the world concepts of lawand order in government, and many otherimportant contributions to civilizationand human development, but she wasnot great enough to be just. She stroveafter solidarity in government, but failedto recognize die solidarity of human lifeand the demands it imposes; so she, too,became a persecuting spirit and to intol-erance she added despotism, cruelty andsensual excesses which in time destroyedher. The age that brought forth the greatGothic cathedrals gave us much thatwas helpfully suggestive and much thatdid not make for civilizations advanceor human happiness. What the world to-day, it seems to us,needs to do is to get away from thebondage of past associations, as they Digitized by G00gle
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Elmer Grey and His Dream of a New-World Architecture. 208 cling to buildings, and seek to worship God in spirit and in truth. Personally we incline to the Greek type, but we feel that here, as elsewhere, the greatest freedom should obtain in the type of building used for worship. It should be suitable for the need for which it is erected. It should be simple, artistic, pleasing, and as effective as possible for the money expended. Mr. Grey is not himself a Christian Scientist. In answer to a question from us on this point he wrote: I am not a member of the Christian Science Church, but am more than willing to say that to Christian Science I owe all my present health and hap-piness. The account of my re-covery from a long spell of semi-invalidism appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel of March 2d, 1907. I have also contributed articles to the same periodical other benefits received or of my regard from time to time expressive either of for the reasonableness of its philosophy as co

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