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                <opener><fw place="top" type="letterhead">WORLD OUTLOOK <lb/>150 FIFTH AVENUE
                            <lb/><rs ref="#tillich_place_id__319" type="place">NEW YORK</rs>
                        <lb/></fw><fw place="left" type="adressline">Dr. <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Paul Tillich</rs>
                        <lb/>Box 1419 <lb/><rs ref="#tillich_place_id__769" type="place">Easthampton</rs>, L. I. <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__865" type="place">N. Y.</rs></fw>
                    <dateline><date when="1946-08-15">August 15, 1946</date></dateline>
                    <salute>Dear <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Dr.
                        Tillich</rs>:</salute>
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                <p>Your friends and mine have passed along the world that on <date when="1946-08-20">August 20th</date> you reach your sixtieth birthday. I do not want to let
                    the day go without a word of congratulation from me, and a personal tribute to
                    you, your character, your teaching and your influence.</p>
                <p>The older I grow the more convinced I am that one of man's frailest
                    abilities is the ability to understand himself and his history. From <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__554" type="place">Washington</rs> to <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__343" type="place">Paris</rs> peace conferences to
                    the disturbances in our own persons, the same lack of understanding is obvious.
                    I am one who shares this lack, but I want to say that I may be more aware of it
                    than some others, because of you. I remember your lectures on systematic
                    theology.<!-- 1941 --> They were interesting to me, not because of the system
                    they put forth, but because of the philosophy of history they revealed and the
                    workings of your mind. They have been very influential on my thinking.</p>
                <p>Don't think that you are old, <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Dr. Tillich</rs>. The best years are ahead, and I for one am
                    glad that you are here to live <add place="superlinear">in</add> them and face
                    their problems.</p>
                <closer><salute>Every good wish to you on your anniversary, and to your family. God
                        bless you.</salute>
                    <signed>Faithfully yours,<rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3753" type="person">Richard T. Baker</rs>
                        <lb/>Assistant Editor</signed></closer>
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