Word: creed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They were the least disturbed because they were the most wise. They were the most wise because they knew their people better than others, because they have long recognized that patriotism, love of empire, service and duty were not the gifts of a monopoly of a class or creed; because they recognized that there were men born in humble circumstances, denied the ordinary opportunities of a university education, denied those privileges that come from real learning, but whose sense of duty, whose love of country and whose patriotism were equal to any other type...
Gandhi was arrested in 1922 and charged with sedition, for which he received a sentence of six years' imprisonment. His policy was noncoöperation; his creed, "The power of the soul." His policy was designed to fight the British Raj; his creed, to make Hindus worthy of self-government...
...come to the conclusion 'that there is no essential connection between the belief in the Virgin birth and a belief in the incarnation. . . . The fact of the virginal conception of Christ was no sooner heard than it was welcomed by the Church and taken up into its creed. It has seemed to all successive generations that the belief in the incarnation was so congruous with belief in the Virgin birth that the former could hardly have taken place in any other manner. It has also seemed that the birth of the New Man must have involved something discontinuous...
Such was the creed that made of Woodrow Wilson's public career a consistent whole. Such is the test which he would have had us apply to the success or failure of that career...
...literature of the Hindus has no such word as "Religion". The word Dharma, mistranslated as religion does not stand for dogma or creed; it stands for righteousness or duty "to be applied in practice." Our sentiments toward God, our relations with our fellow beings, our individual conduct, all these are comprehended in the word Dharma Hinduism, i. e., Hindu-Dharma is thus a system of philosophies which are mainly founded on the basic teachings inculcated in the Vedas. In the words of a competent authority, "Happily, India, though it has at least 20 languages, has but one sacred and learned...