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Demos Finds Democratic Basis Rests on Faith in Immortality

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Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, maintained in a session of the Dunster Forum last night that a conviction in the immortality of the soul was essential for a consistent believer in democracy.

"Democracy is predicated on the dignity of the individual man," he declared, "which must insist that he is more than a collection of stoms or a bundle of nerves. The modern scientist who combines materialism with democracy is a schizophrenic."

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