THE MICHIGAN, DAILY MAGAZINE SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1922
into bittern's5 and denounced their
"The M ind in the 7aking" pponents is pig-headed obecurantits.
(Continued from Page 3.) ceiter. All creatures were made to It is the avowed purpose of sciem-
To the medieval theologa, man assist or to try man. God and the title thought to reduce the number of
was by nature vile. We have seen that, devil were preoccupied with his fate, mysteries, and its success has beenrn
accor yng to the Christian pic, he for had riot God made him in-his own rmarvlouo, but it has by Lo means
was soiled from birth with the pri- image'for his glory, and was not the lonse its perfect work as yet. Ye
seeval sin of his frt parents, and devil intent on populating his own in- -ve carried over far too much of
began to darken his score with fresh fernat kingdom? * * * medieval rysticism in our views of
offenes aof his own as soon as he be eIn order that modern science might man and his (luty towarI himself asi Three genuine
came intelligent enough to do so. An develop it is clear that a whol new aders. trow Orange Blossom
elaborate mechanism was supplied byan(,uoe set offudmnaco- emstrw recall the method
the Church for washing away the or- victions had to be substituted for those adopted by students of the natural
iginal pollution and securing forgive- of the Middle Ages. Man ha to cul- sciences in breaking away from the g
gnss olatesins. Indedg thris wastivate another kind of self-importance standards and limitations of the
ostnesis later mains i deusiness asnd a sew and more profound humil-. medieval philosophers and establishing -Engagemen Ring
s syiSo far as I know, Chrro, ity. He had to come to believe in his new standards of their own. -Bride's Wedding Ring
a friend f Montaige was one of the capacity to discover important truth (To be continued next Sunday) -Groom's Wedding Ring
first to "y a good word for man's ani- througs thoughtful examination of (Copyright 1921, Harper & Bros.)
mial nature, and a hundred years later things about him, and he had to rec--in keeping with the
the amiable Shaftesbury pointed out wogldnd onothsee tohand, tate Scribner's Sons are publishing a growing vogue which
soes honestly gentlemanly traits in wom, did nt semnto he adefr volume of short stories by men of vari- decrees that these
the species. To the modern student of him, butithstihumanttynwaseapparens- ous nationalities. Besides having
biology and anthropology man is ly a curious incident in the universe, stories by Hawthorne, Poe, de Maupas- three rings should har-
neither good or bad. There is no long- and its career a..recent episode in cos- cant, Turgenieff, Stevenson, and other monize in decoration.
er any "mystery of evil.' But the mic history. Ms had to acquire a nineteenth century writers, the volume V-22-1
medieval notion of sin-a term heavy taste for the simplest possible and contains narratives by authors of t- Genuine OrangeBlossm Rings bear
with mysticismns and deserving of most thoroughgoing explanation of day. this mark and the 'cwrds "Orange
careful scrutiny by every thoughtful things. His whole mood had to change Bioss". Ne genuinewishu thea
s stine , and imel him to reduce everything
plrson-still confuses us. * * so far as possible to the commonplace. Another of Scribner's new books is HALLER & FULLER
St. Augustine, who had led a free This new view was inevitably at- called "A Daughter of Napoleon," Stae S Jewelers
life as a teacher of rhetoric in Car- tacked by the mystically disposed. being the memoirs of Emilie de Pell- State Street Jewelers
thage and Rome, came in his later They misunderstood it and berated apra, Comtesse de Brigode, Princess
years to believe, as he struggled to its adherents and accused them of rob- de Chimay, who was the daughter of
overcome his youthful temptations, bing man of all that was most precious Napoleon by the beautiful Madame de
that sexual desire was the most devil- in life. These, in turn, were goaded Pellapra of Lyons.
ish of man's enemies and the chief
sign of his degradation. He could
imagine no such unruly urgence in
man's perfect estate, when Adam and
Eve still dwelt in Paradise. But with
man's fall- sexual desire appeared as
the sign and seal of human debase-
ment. This theory is poignantly set
forth in Augustine's "City of God." He
furnished therein a philosophy for the
monks, and doubtless his fourteenth
book was well thumbed by those who
were wont to ponder somewhat wist-
fully on one of the sins they had fled
the world to escape. * * *
The result of Augustine's theories
and of the efforts to frustrate one of
man's most vehement impulses was to
give sex a conscious importance it had We wish to draw your special attention to our showing of white Flannels.
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and deal frankly with the facts and
problems of sex-is clearly an out
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looked on sexual impulse as of evil
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One of the greatest contrasts be-
tween medieval thinking and the more
critical thought of today lies in the 604 EAST LIBERTY STREET
general conception of man's relation
to the cosmos. To the medieval phil-
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of the time, the world was made for
man. All the heavenly bodies re-
volved about man's abode as their -