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science or philosophy, used in our public schools 

 and in our universities, in which this lowest form 

 of materialism is not an accepted dogma. "There 

 is more ineffable rot being taught in the universi- 

 ties of the United States," rightly said Senator 

 Sherman in a debate on the literacy test, "than can 

 be found in the whole of the ignorant slums of the 

 entire world." The same is true of the universi- 

 ties of other lands. Never perhaps were so many 

 vital truths ignored, never was sound learning less 

 in honor, never was investigation carried on in a 

 more partisan and less unbiased spirit, never was 

 superstition enthroned in the place of religion with 

 such fatal consequences as in the years preceding 

 the World War. 



We still remember the well-justified charges 

 brought against American colleges by Harold 

 Bolce, in 1910. His conclusions were drawn only 

 after he had attended lectures in more than a 

 hundred of the secular institutions of higher learn- 

 ing, and the lectures heard by him were for the 

 most part merely the echoes of what was then 

 being taught throughout the universities of 

 Europe. Here is the editorial summary that pre- 

 faced his article: 



Those who are not in close touch with the colleges of the 

 country will be astonished to learn the creeds being fostered by 

 the faculties of our great universities. In hundreds of class- 

 rooms it is being taught daily that the decalogue is no more 

 sacred than a syllabus; that the home as an institution is 

 doomed; that there are no absolute evils; that immorality is 



