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...criteria of good and evil are to be found in man's nature; man is naturally a social being; therefore the good of society is man's good. Theft, for example, is wrong because it subverts the basis of social life, as does any private injury to another. When there is conflict between the satisfaction of two natural requirements, the rational (therefore the lawful) course is to subordinate the lower to the higher. Thus self-preservation is good, but to refuse to risk one's life when the well-being of society demands it is wrong...
These cold war criteria of judging nations, Hughes charged, have resulted in an "either-or mentality," Kennedy, be pointed out, has written off Ghana, Guinea, and Cuba to the Russians, forgetting that those countries are far more interested in the welfare of their people than in choosing sides of the cold...
Johnson, who is best known for his works on Charles Dickens, believes that satire has a profound beneficial influence because its "great criteria are truth and sanity." The duty of the satirist, he claimed, is to point out the foolishness and blindness...
...Popular Democratic Party is anti-Christian and anti-Catholic, and that it is based on the modern heresy that popular will and not divine law decides what is moral and immoral. This philosophy destroys the Ten Commandments of God and permits that they be substituted by popular and human criteria...
...best ideas of this article are the suggestions for better criteria for awards. He urges greater experimentation in selection (presumably similar to Harvard's "diamonds-in-the-rough"), and greater attention to individual projects, original thought and interpretive ability. Studies of the kinds of students recommended by various secondary schools could make grades more reliable. But the belligerence and muddled thinking of this article will not help these ideas gain acceptance. Conspiracy theories provide an easy object of blame, but too often they are unreal...