The Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes

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TitleThe Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes
Year for Search1916
AuthorsStanderson, Grantly
Date Published1916
PublisherCharles H. Kerr & Co.
Place PublishedChicago, IL
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

The Society of Progress works throughout human history to build a religious eutopia that does not contradict science. It is particularly opposed to Mormonism, and Salt Lake City is destroyed in an earthquake. The first of the “Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes” is “to arouse spiritually thousands of devout, honest, followers of a false religion [Mormonism] to the real degradation of their religion, and the other as high a purpose as ever can move a human being” [the search for Truth] (5).
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1916 Standerson, Grantly. The Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr & Co. PSt

The Society of Progress works throughout human history to build a religious eutopia that does not contradict science. It is particularly opposed to Mormonism, and Salt Lake City is destroyed in an earthquake. The first of the “Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes” is “to arouse spiritually thousands of devout, honest, followers of a false religion [Mormonism] to the real degradation of their religion, and the other as high a purpose as ever can move a human being” [the search for Truth] (5).