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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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rway. The empty walls are still waiting for fresco decorations. Theproper subject would be the representation of the Religious Parliament whichmet in this very bulding nineteen years ago. Through this unique event inthe development of religion the Art Institute of Chicago has become histor-ical; and no better, no nobler, nor more appropriate subject could be chosenas a mural decoration for this handsome stairway hall. p. c. DR. PAUL TOPINARD.—OBITUARY NOTE. We learn with deep regret that Dr. Paul Topinard died at his resi-dence in Paris on December 20, 1911, at the age of eighty-one. He was ascholar of considerable prominence, and his ideas as set forth for instance inhis Science and Faith (Chicago, Open Court Publishing Co., 1899) are worthy 126 THE OPEN COURT. of a hearing. Dr. Topinards main study was anthropology, and he showedthat he was a scientist in all his philosophical and religious views. The moreinteresting and important are his utterances concerning the need of religion
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which he emphasized especially for the large masses. Many honors of highdistinction were conferred upon him, among them that of an officer in theLegion of Honor. k JESUSS WORDS ON THE CROSS.To the Editor of The Open Court: In your thoughtful article The Significance of the Christ Ideal, the sus-picion, that the saying of Jesus on the cross, Luke xxiii. 34, because wanting inthe oldest manuscripts, Avas later superadded, in order not to let Jesus be sur-passed by Socrates, might have been strengthened by a reference to the MISCELLANEOUS. 127 Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. In those writings, attributed to a philosophicallyeducated Roman, and being a mixture of Stoic pantheism and Jewish theism,combined with an eclecticism, taking up Jewish, Christian and Gnostic ele-ments and dating in their present form from the 3d century (according toHarnack) that saying, as far as I know, occurs for the first time. It is givenexactly as in Luke and attributed to Jesus on the cross. The passage occursHo

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