Article September 15, 1945 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Gerald Kennedy, Ellis, Channing Pollock, C. H. Heatherington, H. J. Armitage

The New World at Hand

Gerald Kennedy, Ph.D.
The Chaplain
Washington, District of Columbia

Belief in a new world is regarded by many as the unrealistic dreaming of religious people. According to these self-styled realists, the world may get old but it can never get new and there is no sense in such expectation. However, men thought the world was flat at one time, and they were certain that the sun went around it. When a man came along to challenge that view, an ecclesiastical court made Galileo recant. The legend says that when he arose from his knees he murmured to himself, "Nevertheless, it does move." And it did, as the "realists" came to know....

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