Against ideology: There is no one solution to the health-care crisis.
Callahan, Daniel
From the archives Throughout 1999, Commonweal has been celebrating its 75th anniversary. here from the August 5, 1925 issue is an excerpt from "Summing Up at Dayton," the conclusion of a...
...Upon the way in which the question is answered by individuals depends not merely the fate of this nation, hut the fate ot the world...
...A score of collateral questions surround or trail after the central one...
...That question is- "What think you of God...
...Each soul must answer these questions, or ignore them...
...Bryan and the fundamentalists, they have shouted, raucously it may be, yet in a way that compels attention, a question which each and every soul must must, as Newman faced it even if not to the same answering actof faith...
...Or is he the child of a Father whose life is love and who sent Christ to tell man so, and to prove it...
...Is he an atom of force whirling amid an endless interweaving ot blind, undirected force...
...own religious struggle-the issue that comes when each man must face the ultimate realities of self and God Despite the crudities...of the late Mr...
...Has he no future even save nothingness and oblivion...
...Has he no real will, no true individuality, no true responsibility, no eternal future...
...Thiee remins still .another questinn, Which not only was not summed up at Dayton, but also could not be summed up by any judge, or any counsel, any more than it could be settled by the verdict of any jury...
...here from the August 5, 1925 issue is an excerpt from "Summing Up at Dayton," the conclusion of a series of reports on the Scopes trial, written by Commonweal's editor Michael WillLms...
...Is man a mere accident in an accidcntal universe...
...John Henry Newman had in mind, when, in his...
...Apologia, he summed up the events and conclusions of his...
...This is the issue which...
...Is he a mere chemical cell in a vast agglomeration of chemical cells...
...MICHAEL WlLLAMS Commonweal 7 September 24,1999...
Vol. 126 • September 1999 • No. 16
