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IDEAS HAVE LEGS by Peter Howard A definitive statement on the ideology of the Oxford Group and their "lifechangers" program. 184pp. Coward-McCann Publishers, NY. copyright 1946. Bill Wilson, the Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous belonged to the Oxford Group. It was [partly] through his positive spiritual awakening and life-changing experiences while a member of the Oxford Group, that Bill W. would later become a founding father of A.A. This book is especially important in outlining the program of action of the Oxford Group.Peter Howard's book "Ideas Have Legs" was published immediately following WWII, at a time when the Oxford Group had become controversial because of it's promotion of living a Christian way of life. Mr. Howard says "we are fearfully and wonderfully made...our arms and legs, brains, hands and eyes will one day disintegrate and scatter again into the elements, to swell the multitudinous ocean, to travel the clouds and be dust and dirt in cities we have never known. Yet there is a faith in man which tells him that the something is for ever his and his own responsibility....yet from and through our minds are born ideas which conquer the skies, break and remake nations...the idea conceived and born by the passion of one heart can shape and change the lives of millions, leading great nations on to destruction or to destiny....Ideas are on the march in the world to-day, as well as armies....Ideas change men...shape nations." This life changing program is extensively explained in this book.
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