Lewis

Men differ in their creeds, their aspirations and the cut of their coats; it is hard to find two people who accept the same God in their hearts, though they may worship in the same church. But there is a certain dogma of behavior—the unwritten doctrine of good taste—that binds together in liberty of thought, forbidding any individual to thrust upon another his tailor, his ambition, his belief in God. When Sinclair Lewis, able novelist, violated this universal doctrine in a church in Kansas City, he offended...

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