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Nile Kinnick's correspondence with his family, January-June 1939
1939-01-16: Page 06
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in literature and philosophy claim our problems to be entirely philosophic and religious, and proceed to analyze everything on a philosophic basis but can't offer a thing on the practical, positive side. The ministers of today maintain that religion is the universal solvent of our problems and then proceed to preach a marvelous sermon on economics and deliver an excellent homily on philosophy utterly devoid of practical value and inspiration. Inasmuch as we know the whole thing is a philosophic and religious problem and how to dynamically and effectively improve conditions little by little by right thinking should not our educational energies be directed toward a better understanding of this science. Well, there is little doubt about that. However, there is still the practical
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in literature and philosophy claim our problems to be entirely philosophic and religious, and proceed to analyze everything on a philosophic basis but can't offer a thing on the practical, positive side. The ministers of today maintain that religion is the universal solvent of our problems and then proceed to preach a marvelous sermon on economics and deliver an excellent homily on philosophy utterly devoid of practical value and inspiration. Inasmuch as we know the whole thing is a philosophic and religious problem and how to dynamically and effectively improve conditions little by little by right thinking should not our educational energies be directed toward a better understanding of this science. Well, there is little doubt about that. However, there is still the practical
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