@powder " If we knew about belief, it would be known " Trouble is maybe only you or a few of your friends or a few people like you but not known to you, may know about it, so each needs faith that others (the rest of the world's population) will get to know through you or other transmitters.

@powder Surely a person who believes something, wants others to share it AND act upon it . To that extent it is known by those people and unknown to everyone else. Once you have acted upon a belief you have in fact believed it and proved that by your actions . the words you uttered are not proof.

The root of Bryan's progressivism was his disdain for the theories of social Darwinism and "survival of the fittest" that were being promoted by robber barons of the nineteenth century as an excuse for their unparalleled (until the current age) greed. Unfortunately, Bryan later got social Darwinism confused with actual Darwinian science, which led him down the path of anti-science.

@editor20 I don't think Bryan was railing against Social Darwinism although I'm sure he would've opposed it. He fought the theory of evolution. He believed in the Bible. He practiced Social Gospel. There are good people in the religious community. I won't judge Bryan by the times he lived. Today those who oppose abortion so vigorously, they align themselves with fascists. A lot of people on the right figured that out and have polarized this country.

I knew he died the same year, I didn't know it was 5 days later. He was a Southern Democrat and less progressive than people think. Jacksonian and a Jim Crow guy.