The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.

Heard made arrangements to have Smith meet the legendary author Aldous Huxley. "
"Institutions are not pretty. Watson Professor of Religion and DistinguiHuston Smithd Adjunct Professor of Philosophy until his retirement in 1983 and current emeritus status.

Huston Cummings Smith (born May 31 1919) is a religious studies scholar in the United States. His book The World's Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) has sold over two million copies and remains a popular introduction to comparative religion.