MODERN SUPERSTITIONS
"Ire we of the pre,sent generation so free from eockatrices, though we call them by other names?" asked Father M. C. D'Arcy in a recent broadcast. you read 'The Monkey's Paw? or watched the reactions of people when given a peacock's feather, or walked under a ladder yourself1? You must be young if you do not know how many talismans were carried about in tbe Great War. Look also at the titles of books on the bookstalis in the streets of "London. I am not sure that we shall ever be entirely free of tbese childish fears and follies, but we can free ourselves of tbe mature follies — not by science, because science deals only with the physical universe, and that departmentally, but by a trne religion. The mediaevals, despite their ignorance of nature, knew the geography of the spirit and the pla.ee where rtruth and beauty were at home; we know something of the visible world and refuse to think about the higher kingaom. Hence, with justice, Professor Whitehead called the mediaeval a ftnothgf
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 131, 19 June 1937, Page 4
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