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BERNSTEIN, LEONARD. Autograph Manuscript Signed, a high school exam essay on religion and society, Signed in full at the top of the first page and
BERNSTEIN, LEONARD. Autograph Manuscript Signed, a high school exam essay on religion and society, Signed in full at the top of the first page and additionally signed "Bernstein" at the top of the second. 3 1/2 pages, two large 8vo sheets ruled paper; two holes punched, smudging to first page. Np, 29 April 1935
- Notes: Bernstein's essay is essentially a summary of the ideas expressed in Lewis Browne's This Believing World, about which he writes, "He starts off with a bang about the basis of religion, fear. We find out about all the states of savagery and barbarism, and how gear developed into faith, animism into theism." Bernstein continues later in the essay, "Every time I read of the great ones - Confucious, Lao-Tze, Moses, Jesus - I cannot help thinking that the atheists are losing something great... Religion is based on faith - a straw to cling to - and faith is based on fear. Fear will never leave the human heart..."
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