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    Statesmanship and Religion
    Statesmanship and Religion
    Statesmanship and Religion
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    Statesmanship and Religion

    By Henry A. Wallace

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    Henry Agard Wallace, served as 11th Secretary of Agriculture (1933-1940), during the tumultuous time of the New Deal as the America recovered from the Great Depression. In this book discusses the ethical basis of the New Deal and its relationship to other reform movements.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBurtyrki Books
    Release dateMar 5, 2020
    ISBN9781839742996
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      Statesmanship and Religion - Henry A. Wallace

      © Burtyrki Books 2020, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      STATESMANSHIP AND RELIGION

      HENRY A. WALLACE

      Secretary of Agriculture of the United States

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      PREFACE 6

      I — THE SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE OF THE PROPHETS 8

      II 9

      III 11

      II— THE SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE OF THE REFORMERS 14

      II 14

      III 17

      IV 19

      III — THE GREAT SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE OF OUR AGE 22

      II 23

      III 25

      IV 26

      V 28

      VI 30

      IV — STATESMANSHIP AND RELIGION 32

      II 33

      III 35

      IV 36

      V 37

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 39

      PREFACE

      FOR the past few years we have been going through an economic and social crisis probably as severe as any that our civilization has ever had to face. It has come as a result, in large part, of our failure to learn how to live with abundance. We have conquered great physical obstacles and have taken possession of vast natural resources; we have the manpower, the machine-power, and the technique to convert these resources into a much higher standard of living; yet here we are bogged down for lack of a social machine that will help us distribute, fairly, the fruits of our labor.

      The spirit which we employed and which we extolled throughout the expansionist era in our history was the spirit of the pioneer. A proud and rugged individualism carved a nation out of the wilderness. Probably no other spirit would have been so well adapted to the rapid growth of a new nation on a new continent.

      Our pioneer forefathers, confronting physical hazards and obstacles which do not exist for us, had need of all the physical and moral stamina they could summon. It is not surprising that they turned so much to the Psalms of David for spiritual meat and drink. The Psalms seemed to typify the rugged individual, fearless, prepared to meet his God face to face.

      The pioneers lived in a scarcity economy. The first obligation was to produce enough of the necessaries of life to go around. It meant hard work, discouraging work, often disagreeable and unpleasant work. But because it had to be done, because starvation and deprivation might result if it were not done, men made a virtue of work. If the task was monotonous, the more reason for spurring on the worker with the message that work was a virtue; leisure, anti-social. Likewise, it became always right to save, rarely right to spend. The harder a man worked, and the more he saved, the finer citizen he was rated.

      Now I do not speak of this pioneer age and these pioneer virtues disparagingly. But I make a distinction between the pioneer era and our era; and I make a distinction between the attitudes that properly dominate one era, and the attitudes that ought properly to dominate another.

      For now, the fifth or sixth generation beyond those old pioneers, we have come to a time of abundance, instead of penury. But, because we have not learned how to live with abundance, men go hungry and ragged. Because our great business institutions saved too strenuously in the fat years, and accumulated huge corporate surpluses at the cost of their workers’ purchasing power, demand lagged far behind supply, depression came, and men lost their jobs.

      Is our spiritual life today awake to the need for social justice, and have we souls rich enough to endure abundance? I do not know. That is the challenge of the Church today.

      It is the job of government, as I see it, to devise and develop the social machinery which will work out the implications of the social message of the old prophets and of the Sermon on the Mount; but it remains the opportunity of the Church to fill men’s hearts and minds with the spirit and the meaning of those great visions. They have meaning today to an amazing degree, if only we will look about us with eyes clear of prejudice and greed.

      I especially hope that many young people from twenty to thirty years of age will read this little book. They have been terribly disillusioned by the depression and are searching for firm foundations. No one can solve the problem completely for them but I am certain that they will find help in spending a little time reading about the vigorous flesh-and-blood men of former ages who strove to find the roots of their depressions in human hearts, the social

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