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The Tribal God

Nature volume 120, page 880 (1927)Cite this article

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I FEAR Prof. MacBride (NATURE, Dec. 3, p. 807) has entirely failed to distinguish between speaking contemptuously of the Deity and of some people's conceptions of the Deity. He has also withdrawn from mine and Mr. Squire's context the explanatory text. This is a common failing of the journalist, but ought not to be of the scientist.

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