Dr. Henry A. Murray, professor of Clinical Psychology, highlighted the annual Phi Beta Kappa Society exercises yesterday, calling for "a new testament for a new age." Murray delivered the keynote oration before an audience of about a hundred members of the society and their guests in Sanders Theater.
Murray noted with alarm the "flood of discontent and self-depreciation these days" and the "mythology of the mass media--a mythology of pride, greed, and envy." To deal with this deplorable situation, Murray urged the formation of a new mythology, to be embodied in a "truly new testament," a kind of Bible for modern times.
Like the Christian Bible, such a book might contain a wide variety of legends, poems, songs of praise, and parables. It would differ from the Christian Bible, however, in that it would be "consonant with modern science."
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