The 1920s and ‘30s were the period in which the faculties of nearly all colleges were completely purged of pre-industrial faculty by the “silent artillery of time.”
By 1930, nearly every professor at every university was a lifelong product—from “kindergarten” on—of the German secular research university model.
jeez louise you read 19th century german philosophers and they sound like total doofuses.
by 1848 or so the german seminaries were teaching some version of the arian heresy in their seminaries while the philosopy departments were teaching atheism.
the arian pastors didn’t have strong defenses against atheist philosophers. their congregations drifted away because who would follow a pastor who didn’t actually believe in his own God.
so we are entering the post industrial age. you happen to