It is enough to say that, while the Church as an institution continues to exist, the belief in the supernatural and even in the spiritual has been supplanted in the souls of millions of men by a gross and debasing materialism.
Beck argues that materialism has replaced spiritual beliefs for many people.
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That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
That vision will remain with them as long, and no longer, as there is in their hearts a conscious and willing acquiescence in its wisdom and justice.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
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