Evening star., 1925-07-28

nOnOr ana 10 you gentlemen Oh the
jury, as it was to me, to learn that
Darwin spent three years at Cam
bridge studying for the ministry"
God and a personal immortality. He
used a volume entitled American
Men of Science" which he says in
cluded the names of practically every
American who may properly be called
a scientist There were fifty-five
hundred names in the book. He Sc
lected one thousand names as repre-
sentative of the fifty-five hundred and
addressed them personally. Most of
them, ne said, were teachers in schools
of higher learning. The names were
kept confidentially. Upon the answers
received, he asserts that over half of
them doubt or deny the existence of
a personal God and a personal i'm.
and he asserts that unbelief
increases in proportion to prominence,
the percentage of unbelief being great.
est among the most prominent. Among
believers in a personal God
less than 81 per cent, while
believers in a personal Immortality
only 81 per cent.
Explains UnbeIief.
HE also questioned the students in
nine colleges of high rank and from
l 900 answers received, 81 per cent OF
which were from students between Is
and 20, he found that unbelief in.
creased from IS per cent in the fresh,
man class up to 40 to 40 per cent
among the men who We're graduated
On page ESQ of this book we read
The students statistics show that
young people enter college, possessed
of the beliefs still accepted, more or
less perfunctorily, in the average
home of the land, and gradually aban
don the cardinal Christian beliefs
This change from belief to unbelief
he attributes to the influence of the
persons of high culture under whom
they studied"
The people of Tennessee have been
patient enough; they acted none toe
soon. How can they expect to pro.
tect society, and even the church,
from the deadening influence of agnos
ticisrn and atheism if they permit the
teachers employed by taxation to poi
son the minds of the youth with this
destructive doctrine? And. remember
that the law has not heretofore re
quired the writing of the word poi
SON on poisonous doctrines. The bod
les of our people are so valuable that
druggists and physicians must be
careful to properly label all poisons
why not be as careful to protect the
spiritual life of our people from the
poisons that kill the soul?
There is d test that is sometimes
used to ascertain whether one sus
pected of mental infirmity is really
insane. He is put into a tank OF
water and told to dip the tank dry
IUhiln Of Af
the tank. If he has not sense enough
to turn off the water he is adjudgec
insane. Can parents justify them
selves if, knowing the effect of be
lief in evolution, they permit irreli
gious teachers to inject skepticism an6
inf1delity in the minds of their chill
dren?
Cites Leopold and Loeb.
DO bad doctrines corrupt the NOR
ais of students? We have a case ir
point. Mr.. DarroW, one of the most
criminal lawyers in oul
land, was engaged about a year age
in defending two rich mems sons wht
were on trial for as dastardly a mur
der as was ever committed. The old
er, one, Babe Leopold, was a bril-
liant student, 10 years old. He was al
evolutionist and an atheist. He was
also a follower of Nietzsche, whose
books he had devoured and whose phi
losphy he had adopted. Mr.. Darrov
made plea for him, based upon the
influence that Nietzsche's philosophy
had exerted upon the boys mind Her,
are extracts from his speech:
Babe took to philosophy.
He grew up in this way; he became
enamoured by the philosophy of Metz
sche. Your honor, L have read al
most everything that Nietzsche ever
wrote. A man of wonderful intellect
the most original philosopher of the
last century. A man who made {
deeper imprint on philosophy than any
other man within a hundred years
whether right of wrong -
1 have just made few short ex
tracts from Nietzsche that show the
things that he Ueopold) has read, anc
these are short and almost taken al
random. 1t Is not how this would
affect you. 1t is not how it would
affect me. The question is, how il
would affect the impressionable
visionary, dreamy mind of a boy-a
boy who should never have seen it
too early for him.
Quotes From Nietzsche.
Quotation from Nietzsche: '+Why
so soft, oh, my brethren? Whv SC
soft, so unresisting and Welding
Why is there so much disayowal anf
abnegation in your heart? Why is
there so little fate in your looks? Fol
all creators are hard and if must
seem blessedness unto you to press
your hand upon milleniums and upor
wax.
This new table, oh, my brethren
I put over you; become hard. To be-
obsessed by moral consideration pre-
supposes very low grade of intel
lect. We should substitute for moral
ity the VIII to our own end, and, con
sequently, to the means to accomplish
that. A great man, a man whom
nature has built up ard invented ir
a grand style, is colder, harder. less
cautious and more free from the fea,
of public opinion. He does not
possess the virtues which are com
patible with respectability, with being
respected, nor any of those things
which are counted among the virtues
of the herd"
Nietzsche's Superman.
"Mr. Darrow says: "The super
man, a creation of Nietzsche, has
permeated every college and univer-
sity in the civilized world.
There is not any university in the
world where the professor is not ia
miliar with Nietzsche-not one.
Some believe 1t, and some do moi