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at least for the want of the no cessary amount of dollars to be shown to the gatekeeper. Or if he had been born in that land, Ku Klux Klan would secretly have knocked him to death or have lynched him. For did he not give utterance to the political blasphemy that blessed are the meek, thus insulting the Nordic right to rule the world P and the economic heresy that blessed are the poor P Would he not have been put into prison for twenty or more years for saying that it was as easy for the prosperous to reach the kingdom of heaven as for the camel to pass through the eyes of a needle 2 The fascist professor deals a pon-thrust against what he calls our pantheism which as a word has no synonym in our language nor as a doctrine any place in our philosophy. He docs not seen to have realised that the Christian idea that God remains essentially what he is while manifesting himself in the son’s being belongs to the same principle as our principle of immanence. The divinity of God according to it accepts humanity for its purpose of self-revelation and bridges the infinite gulf between them. This idea has glorified all human beings, has had the effect in the Christian West to emancipate individuals from the thraldom of absolute power. This has trained that attitude of mind which is the origin Ф4 о