THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
SUGGESTED ALTERATION. Thomas Nixon Carver, professor of economics' at Harvard (says tho New York correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph”), suggests that tho Decalogue ought to bo amended to meet tho needs of modern conditions. Ho says that tho commandment. “Thou shalt not take tho name of the Lord thy God in vain,” could be laid aside with little or no detriment to public morals, to make way for the new precept, “Thou shalt not drink to drunkenness, nor bewilder thyself with strong drink.” The utterance of the name of God in the speech of today, he says, has lost its old-time significance, and its use is not intended to be profane or to inflict a sting. It is only an outlet of a limited vocabulary and lack of good taste. Drinking, on the other hand, the professor says, is a practical injury to the value of man as an economic .unit; as a factor in the inter-related' activities produced by the modernised, inventive life of to-day.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7016, 3 January 1910, Page 3
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