I am glad that the Church has at least good form to keep it company. But I confess that I do not know what church is the “so-called Christian” one; whether it is Protestant or Catholic; nor what the real, honest-to-goodness Christian Church, if any, calls itself in Dorsey’s mind. “Socially useful behavior is not more prevalent, because sociably fashionable behavior has a better lobby.”[154] Our Dorsey is now turning radical, for he goes on: “By Fashion I do not mean the, or a Four Hundred; I mean those in power of money and of government, our bosses; the people who are trying to make us buy their wares, join their club, vote their ticket, think their thoughts, and help them kill or cripple their enemies.” Radical and pacifist. But I had not heard that force was being used by anybody to make people join their clubs. “What,” the now thoroughly aroused former professor of anthropology demands--page 473--“can be of less consequence to you than whether I _believe_ in this or that kind of a God, Savior, government or society? What is of consequence to you, to society, and to me, is what I do.” Very true, Mr. Dorsey. And I for one apologize. But we were under the impression--seemingly mistaken--that your beliefs might, at times, influence your conduct, or even enable us to guess what, under given circumstances, you were likely to do before you actually did it and it was too late. I hope I have not given the impression that Dorsey is unimportant. He--like the one who is to follow--is immensely important. He has a large and enthusiastic public. I have never seen the rationality of his argument seriously questioned in any periodical of general circulation. And that fact, perhaps, is the most important one of all. 2. THE BRAZEN BOUGH Lewis Browne’s “This Believing World,” which ran through four large printings within the first four months of its existence, is an interesting example of the sort of reasoning that passes with a generation devoted to materialism, mechanism, humanism, monism and the newer psychologies, and yet is not quite ready to pay the consequences of its position or to abandon altogether the banner of the cause which it has deserted. Browne is what may be termed an “admirer” of Jesus Christ. He treats him always with the utmost kindness, speaking of him[155] as “a gentle, loving, helpless youth ... the very incarnation of perfection,”--a perfection with which an “insistent pacifism” is soon included. “The spirit of Jesus,” it also appears, “was innately Jewish and puritanical.”[156] Moreover, “Jesus, one must remember ... like every other great Jewish prophet ... preached only ethics.”[157]