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> THE ATHENAEUM 59 selves and blot out civilization. The Author ^ow* .ha* l.a d ligious and social thinking been as-free from dogmatism as our science the world would not be in its present chaoticstateof aff^rs. The whole trouble has been that men throughout ages have actually been afraid to think. ;* 13 ' . frnm The mind has been reviewed as a myserious. entity. apa the body, perpetually being humiliated by some^vll spmt which sought at all times to lead it along the wrong path. Shouid the evil spirit succeed the body in turn was to undergo eternal Punishment, ■inflicted by an all powerful monarch, who sat at att * the human mind in its struggle against acquiring evi ideas B\ the mind as such has never existed. Most of our so reasoning consists merely in finding arguments for going on ^flieving as ^ ^ already do. This fallacious type of thinking he calls rationalizing. For illustration, an individual who believes in the Genesis account of Creation, after studying Geology, instead of forming better concep tions in the light of his new knowledge, will often interpret the six days, referred to by Moses, as being six Geological ag es >_yet G3olo J? y as a science at the time, had not been originated. Mr. Robinson de- scribes this type of thinking as being worse than doga^ttsm. The human mind has developed wonderfully and our big problem is to make men think free from dogmatism. The problem is, as the Author has shown, that we do not think enough about thinking and much of our confusion is but the result of current illusions regarding it. FOREIGN MISSION MOREHOUSE COLLEGE BY THE YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION In the last issue of this organ reference was made to the fact hat the Young Men’s Christian Association fosters a program that ncludes and emphasizes home and foreign missions. FoT > J s * "roup of men believing in and working for the deyelopment of the Christian Church, we push and cherish the spirit of lending a help- ng hand to our fellow men in need. We stand for the^elevation o nen strengthening the mind, developing the body , and magnify g the soul. In a country so rich and prosperous as America the physi cal and intellectual features are to a large extent, relegated because of the various facilities that contribute to, these apart from the strictly Christian organizations such as the R. Q-; T *^ and *£ Stl f “' iions of learning which offer in many cases.not only opipjrtunity for mental but physical development. In this way the P r ^ for ® Young Men’s Christian Association in America is not sd|sfcfficult as it could be, and as it is automatically in a land wher<|:thege are no contributing forces. Africa is'one of the places where 4h*e forces are not available. The problem is; therefore, a very, greit one,-' Africa. >5 .v 4 l •>’ ^