Article July 29, 1939 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: The Way of Progress

with contributions from Harold Paul Sloan, William T. Manning, W. W. Wilkinson, B. E. Watson, J. Price Williams

[Excerpts from article in the Feuille d'Avis of Neuchâtel, signed by many prominent people of Neuchâtel, France (translation)]

We are at a turning-point in history, and men are asking themselves anxiously what the morrow will bring forth. Everywhere the conviction is growing that it is necessary to revise our ideas radically, ideas which are no longer consonant with present events.

Events are passing rapidly; external reforms will not suffice to anticipate them; human reason cannot find solutions to the problems which confront us, because the very foundation is deficient—our inner life.

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