Word: brute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evolution is false morally because it makes for selfishness and for the glorification of brute force. This problem of evolution is at the basis of the struggle between Modernists and Fundamentalists. Ever since the dark shadow of Darwinism came over the world, public morality has been progressing downward. The world must have a moral foundation and that foundation can only be found in religion. Take away religion and the whole moral structure falls. Today we have lost vital religion and therefore we have lost morality. Evolutionary philosophy is godless...
...dramatics to such stuff as 'Up in Mabel's Room' or 'Getting Gertie's Garter'. And along with this has followed the degradation of maidenly modesty. Evolution is a philosophy of the flesh. The modern drama is an exaltation of the flesh and the glorification of the brute. Magazines today are simply dripping with sensualism. The best seller of today compares most unfavorably with the best seller of 50 years...
...intercollegiate sport four years ago, Dr. Paul Withington declared: "It is as clean as any other sport we have, and if conducted properly, should develop the same good sportsmanship as football or track." And probably even the giant Firpo will now admit that its essence is skill and not brute strength. If comparison is made with other sports, boxing is certainly to be preferred to wrestling and is less dangerous than football. But its organization on an intercollegiate basis offers inherent difficulties as exemplified by the recent ruling of Yale authorities that unless cheering was conducted with more decorum...
...plunge his trident into its body. The octopus held fast. Negri gave the signal to be hauled up. When his companions saw the writhing monster emerge they were panic-stricken, but the plight of their comrade appeared so serious that they went to his aid and cut the brute to pieces with their knives...
...brute love of each man for himself, each caste for itself, each nation for itself, is stronger and blinder since hate has covered the earth with fire, smoke and human bones. The love of self, after the universal and common defeat, has magnified this hate a hundred times, hatred of the small against the great, the discontented against the restless, the servants against their masters, the ambitious classes against the declining classes, the hegemonic races against the vassal races, the ruling peoples against the peoples under their yoke. The greed for too much has led to the lack of necessities...