Abstract
ECHOES of the Fundamentalist controversy continue to travel across the Atlantic. The present volume consists of a collection of articles and addresses by Prof. H. F. Osborn dealing with the situation created by this strange revival. It is a phenomenon very difficult to cope with, being a product of popular education and democratic government. The only cure is more education of the right sort, but the Fundamentalists are striving to capture the educational machine. Prof. Osborn is aware that a mental atmosphere prevails not very favourable to scientific truth. “I hold,” he says, “that the press and the movies are by far the most potent influences upon conduct in America at the present time.” He regards the sum of press influence as morally good but intellectually bad, “because it creates what I call the jazz mind and a disproportionate sense of relative values.”
Evolution and Religion in Education: Polemics of the Fundamentalist Controversy of 1922 to 1926.
By Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn. Pp. xiv + 240. (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.) 7s. 6d. net.
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H., J. Evolution and Religion in Education: Polemics of the Fundamentalist Controversy of 1922 to 1926. Nature 118, 652 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118652a0
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