Editorial March 29, 1941 Issue

Babel Supplanted

George Shaw Cook

One of the chief characteristics of the present world situation is what may appear to some to be an overabundance of talk. According to radio and press reports, there is a ceaseless stream of public and semipublic addresses in justification of some particular line of action or in condemnation thereof. Some of this talk is to the point and is obviously sincere and straightforward. Much of it, however, is apparently insincere and designed to confuse the issue rather than to clarify it. All of this seems to indicate that the world has, in belief, become a veritable tower of Babel. This false concept or structure, based upon erroneous material premises, will fall, but humanity will survive, and eventually humanity itself will yield to divinity.

Mary Baker Eddy, on page 581 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has defined "Babel" as follows: "Self-destroying error; a kingdom divided against itself, which cannot stand; material knowledge. The higher false knowledge builds on the basis of evidence obtained from the five corporeal senses, the more confusion ensues, and the more certain is the downfall of its structure."

Out of the turmoil which seems to exist today, there will come a solution of world problems which will ensure a more stable sense of government and bring to pass in human experience a condition of things that will be more conducive to the establishment of permanent peace and righteous progress. This, however, will come only through a more general recognition of the divine fact stated by the Apostle Paul, that "God is not the author of confusion, but of peace."

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