AMERICAN LIFE
BITTER CRITICISM
SEVEN DEADLY VALUES
New York, January "7. One of the bitterest critiques of American life known was given by Dr. Charles Shaw, Professor of Philosophy at New York University, and one of America’s school of younger philosophers. “Some philanthropist,” he said, “should offer a niillion-dollar. prize for the invention of a reason for living. There are seven deadly values in current life, namely i speed, radio, sex, over-emphasis on health, jazz, modern psychology, and money. Another age would have hesitated to annihilate space and time in the way we grind' them up in our machines They would have feared the envy of the gods. Our octogenarians and centenarians knew nothing about diet; they just lived; but we are striving for Methuselah’s record. We have come to the conclusion that we must be entertained—always entertainment. Time was when psychology was confined to the classroom and laboratory, but now it was running foot-loose in the streets. Ours is an age of sex, an erotic age of the world; our great god is Mammon as our great man is Dives.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 7
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184AMERICAN LIFE Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 7
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