Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cause of academic commotion for or against it is probably that most of the book is based on ethic rather than fact. A few not-so-original remedies are suggested for a few situations. A situation: from a young husband, hampered by modern working conditions such as feminine competition, young wife gets support too poor to permit much breeding. Reed remedy: "Upon the completion of an important piece of work for the state, men are paid for their service, and there is no reason why women should not receive comparable recognition [per bab]." Some other subjects treated: the Evolution...
...ethic based on predatory opportunism as the highest good emerge in the U. S. from Standard practice? No. Whatever he did actually, spiritually John D. never grew beyond his boyhood beliefs. To propitiate his own Christian beliefs and the public which still embraced them, more than three-fourths of Rockefeller's gifts of $750,000,000 "have been distributed since 1911, the year the public became mathematically conscious of his vast wealth." More than any other's, his money is responsible for Prohibition. To needy institutions went most of these millions. To needy individuals (20,000) went shiny dimes. Once...
...down the Pacific coast from Monterey. Common sanity is dropping from him like a cloak that he may carry or not. His spirit runs naked to the spirit of the hills, of the "iron wind" on the sea promontories. He will be possessed of a god beyond the old ethic, "good and evil...
This problem like many treated in Social Ethic's courses is one on which every intelligent being has ideas of his own, but which can often be greatly clarified by the aid of an intellect trained in that particular branch of learning...
...Catholic churches have come, or are rapidly coming, to close cooperation. But according to Bishop Brent, the Stockholm conference revealed that the breach among the churches, even in practical affairs, is greater than he dreamed. For this reason he finds the Church singularly impotent: "The lost Christian ethic remains undiscovered...