Abstract

The New Miasmal Mist

The article presents information on the book "Religion," by Edward Scribner Ames. Of the various devices for keeping the language while discarding the doctrines of theism, perhaps the most ingenious is that expounded by Professor Ames of the University of Chicago, Illinois who maintains that God symbolizes the spirit of the world in the sense that Uncle Sam symbolizes the spirit of this country or Alma Mater symbolizes the spirit of a college. One balks at Professor Ames's arguments, and yet one cannot fail to sympathize with his attempt to preserve the value of religion to society. The book pleads sincerely for social justice, for a spirit of brotherhood, for the development of the kind of character that will create a better type of civilization.