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Rh dws who’ve had the same experience. . . . Anyody got a butt?”

Burbank, who was nearest to him, passed him a ackage of cigarettes. Ferguson extracted one, ighted it, blew smoke at the ceiling, and then quietly continued, drawling lazily: “Most fellows don’t tell their folks anything, and there ’s no reaon why they should, either. Our folks lie to us rom the time we are babies. They lie to us about »irth and God and life. My folks never told me the truth about anything. When I came to college I wasn’t very innocent about women, but I was about everything else. I believed that God made the world in six days the way the Bible says, and hat some day the world was coming to an end md that we’d all be pulled up to heaven where Christ would give us the once-over. Then he ’d hip some of us to hell and give the good ones larps. Well, since I Ve found out that all that’s looey I don’t believe in much of anything.”

“I suppose you are talking about evolution," said Ross. “Well, Prof Humbert says that evoluions hasn’t anything to do with the Bible— He is reigion and that the two don’t mix. He says that le holds by evolution but that that does n’t make Christ’s philosophy bad.”
 * ays that science is science and that religion

“No,” Burbank agreed, “it does n’t make it bad^ but that isn’t the point. I’ve read the Bible,