Religion: Hidden Dynamo

Many religiously-minded moderns believe that unless organized religion stops seeking old, elusive gods and identifies itself with scientific humanism in an attempt to improve Man, it is doomed to perish from the earth. Five able pedagogs subscribed to this belief in a letter which they sent last week to many a U. S. scholar, author, teacher, scientist. The letter began by stating that the Society of Friends (Quakers) is one body in which modern thinking and religious impulses may be reconciled. Excerpts:

"It is not, however, our primary interest to induce people to join...

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