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"Both the Cromwellian and French revolutions were corrupted by utopian illusions and the confusion of contradictory visions of social perfection. Abraham Lincoln was dogged by the absolutistic demands of Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, and he had more genuine charity than all of them. In the interventionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Teacher Yes, Mother No | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

Some Corrupted Values

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Niebuhr Traces Effects Of Christianity on West | 9/28/1961 | See Source »

Not all the heritage has been beneficial, Niebuhr pointed out. The same affirmation--that history has meaning--which gave rise to the West's "historical dynamism" also brought on, for example, the corrupted scheme of values in which every event is related to divine will.

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Niebuhr Traces Effects Of Christianity on West | 9/28/1961 | See Source »

Now, as in all ages, men ask whether a "reasonably idealistic" individual can make his way in the world without being overwhelmed, defeated, or corrupted by it, Pusey said. And the answer to the question, the President declared, must be "in each individual case that we simply do not know...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Pusey Calls For Religion Integrated Into Daily Life | 6/12/1961 | See Source »

The committee was plainly cool. Even its chairman and longtime foreign aid champion, Arkansas' J. W. Fulbright, warned that there must be reforms: "We have had too many examples of countries in which our aid programs have been corrupted." Another staunch aid advocate, Wisconsin's Republican Alexander Wiley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Trouble for Aid? | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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