How Forcible Are Right Words!   September 17, 1944

If we may judge the future by the past, when important issues are being aired, we may expect heat to be generated and rumors to be started. We may expect to hear much calling of names and much...

Citation for "A Good Man"   September 24, 1944

The institutions of men confer a great many honors, titles, degrees, and awards of one kind or another. Organizations may issue credentials, recognitions and marks of merit⎯all of which are in one...

And the Glory of Children Are Their Fathers   October 8, 1944

“Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.” This, from Proverbs, suggests comment on a law of privilege and responsibility. Every...

Evil Is Where You Find It   October 15, 1944

For the Fashion of This World…   October 22, 1944

Benjamin Franklin once wrote: “There are numbers who, perhaps, fear less the being in hell that out of fashion.” And while we have often attempted to lay the charge at the feet of women,...

The Search for Mysteries   October 29, 1944

One reason why progress is possible is that there are always among us those who are never content with what they know or with what other men know⎯those wholesomely restless spirits who are always...

On Foretelling Things to Come   November 5, 1944

Men, it would seem, have in common an urgent desire to know more about the future⎯a desire which demonstrates itself in many ways, and for many reasons. In some respects and to some extent the...

On Knowing the Future   November 12, 1944

People sometimes ask impatiently: “Why can’t we know more about the future?” “Why shouldn’t we know the future?” One part of a possible answer to this problem, so...

A Idea Whose Time Has Arrived,   November 26, 1944

A much-quoted thought from Victor Hugo is presented for our pondering: “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world,” he said, “and that is an idea whose time has...

To Those Who Fail to Conform   December 3, 1944

Using the term in its broadest meaning, history has produced many non-conformists. Every generation produces many non-conformists. And, indeed, every community, and perhaps almost every family,...