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THE MICHIGAN DAILY, MAGAZINE
SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1922
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-into bitterness and denounced thetr
"The H ind in the faking" oppone~nts s pig-headed obscrantistsI
(Continued from Page 3.) center. All creatures were made to It is the avowed purpose of scie
To the medieval theologian, man assist or to try man. God and the tific thought to reduce ti number of
was by nature vile. We have seen that, devil were preoccupied with his fate, mysteries, and its success has been
according to the Christian Epic, he for had not God made him in his own rarrelos, bt it has by ro means
was soiled from birth with the pri- inage for his glory, and was not the otnie itsreleect work as yet. Ve
ieval sin of his first parents, and devil intent on populating his owns ns- tve carried over far too much of
began to darken his score with fresh fermi hingdon? * * * dietieval i ysticism in our views of
offenses of his own as soon as he be- In order that modern science ight man and his auty towar himself as1
came intelligent enough to do so. An develop it is clear that a wholly new others.
elaborate mechanism was supplied by and opposed set of fundamental con- We omust tow recall the methol
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 had to cul- sciences in breaking away from the
coess for later sins. Indeed, this was tivate another kind of self-importanca standards and limitations of the
ostensibly its main business, and a new and more profound humil- medieval philosophers and establishing
* * * So far as I know, Charron, ity. ie had to come to believe in his new standards of theirown.
a friend of Montaigne, was one of the capacity to discover important truth (To be continued next Sunday)
first to say a good word for man's ani- through thoughtful examination of (Copyright 1921, Harper & Bros.)
mal nature, and a hundred years later things about him, and he had to ree-
the oomiable Shaftesbury pointed out ogtize. oi the other hand, that the Scribners Sois are publishing a
seoie honestly gentlemanly traits in ororld did not seem to be made for volume of short stories by men of vari-
the species. To the modern student of lut, bru ttot ouniaty oas apparent- ous nationalities. Besides having
biology and anthropology man is ly t corioss incident in the universe, stories by Hawthorne, Poe, de Maupas-
neither good or bad. There is no long- ai ns oareer a recent episode in tOs sant, Trgenieff, Stevenson, and other
er any "mystery of evil.' But the oohi.ory. He had to acquire a nineteenth century writers, the volume
medieval notion of sitn-a term heavy ta for the inipest si and contains narratives by authors of to-
owith imysticismos and deserving oi mot thoroughgoiing eplanation of ay
wih msiim n eevn fthings. His whole mood had to change day-}
careful scrutiny by every thoughtful and imnel him to reduce everything
person-still cOtftises its. *
so far as possible to the commonplace. Another of Scribner's new books is
St. Augustine, who had led a free This new view was inevitably at- called "A Daughter 9f Napoleon,"
life as a teacher of rhetoric in Car- tacked by the mystically disposed. teing the memoirs of Emilie de Pell-
thage and Rome, came in his later They misunderstood it and berated apra, Conmtesse de Brigode, Princess
years to believe, as toe struggled to its adherents and accused them of rob- de Chinay, 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." Ie
furnished therein a philosophy for the
monks, and doubtless his fourteenth
book was well thumbed by those who
were wont to ponder somewhat wist-
tily on one of the sins they sad 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 showin
never possessed before. The devil was
thrust out of the door only to come in It is not often that we have been able to show such an u
at all the windows. * * *
No one familiar with medieval liter- reasonable prices. $.00 to $1 2.00.
ature, will, however, be inclined to
accuse its authors of prudishness, as
it prevails especially in England and
the United States-our squeamish and
shamefaced reluctance to recognize
and deal frankly with the facts and
problems of sex-is clearly an out
growth of the medieval attitude whichIV ec
looked on sexual impulse as of evil
originand a sign of man's degradation.
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hatoits extremely tdifficult.
intween medieval thinking and the more
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general conception of man's relation
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