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ASSERTS DR. REBEC
Philosopher Defends Faith As
Natural to Man.
Religion is a natural tiling in the life
of man. Dr. George Rebee, director of
the Portland center of the University
and dean of the graduate school, said in
his lecture on “The Philosophical Defi
nition of Religion,” at the “Y,” hut Wed
nesday evening.
It is reported that religion is an artifi
cial thing that the wise have forced upon
man to fleece him, Dr. Rebec said, but
he assured his audience that no one
could “get away” with such a mon
strous delusion as that would be for the
many centuries that man has believed in
religion.
Many persons, young and old, take a
cynical air of superiority toward relig
ion, the speaker said, and say that
they have outgrown belief in what is
manifestly a fraud. However, the skep
tic must return to the promal life of man
for his starting point if he is going to
deny religion, Dr. Rebec asserted.
The speaker expressed no sympathy
for the popular belief in the economic
determination and motivation of all the
actions of men and nations. While the
need of, and fight for, bread undoubtedly
has a great deal to do with what goes on
in the world, there is a higher moral
sense and a striving after an “ultimate
good,” coming from the natural tenden
cies and desires of man, that exerts a
stronger influence. The passion for
beauty, as expressed in the creation and
worship of art, vies with the passion for
bread in this world of ours and is a form
of this higher moral sense. The moral
sense in man he said, is deep-rooted and
is not created by preachers or the Ladies’ j
vVid Society.
also maintains, and this applies to Hie
practical man more tlian the dreamer.
The scientist bases Iiis search for facts
on an hypothesis, and is therefore an
: idealist. The metaphysician is not will
ing to concern himself alone with matter,
,as the physicist does, or with mental
[content, as the psychologist does, but is
■ interested in an attempt to relate man's
.experiences with the ultimate meaning
of things. lie wants to know the “why”
of things and makes use of some far
flung hypothesis to create the “ought
to-be” world, and therefor is the great
est idealist.
(, The New Testament enjoins one with
“Be ye perfect” and the great question
for man is how to attain this perfection.
Religion must come to the rescue. Dr.
Rebec said, and the central idea of all
i religions is that of salvation. Man is.
of course, held back in his search for
: G(od by his own limitations, and he con
1 streets him in his own image and idea
(of perfection. The hope of the world,
however, lies in the following of this
^natural tendency toward religion and per
fection.
SWEETSER TO ADDRESS
AUDUBON CONVENTION
Botany Professor Will Spend Week In
Portland In Interests of
Wild Flowers.
Professor and Mrs. A. It. Sweetser
will spend the week of April 0 to 18 in
Portland attending the annual conven
tion of the Oregon Audubon Society, a
society for the study of birds and flow
ers. On April 0, Professor Sweetser
i will address the society in Library Hall,
iCentral Library on “Wild Flowers of
Oregon.”
Mrs. Sweetser’s collection of bird and
flower pictures will be exhibited dur
ing tiie week under the auspices of the
extension division of the University.
Tiie annual exhibition of bird pictures
by Bruce It. Horsfall, the noted bird
Man is an idealist by nature. Dr. Rebec artist, will bo an attraction of April 10.
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