Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afraid poor Evelyn has begun to take the problem of evil seriously...
...Sunday morning the Deweys attended services at interdenominational Christ Church, located in an old Victorian meeting hall. They heard the Rev. Dr. Ralph C. Lankier, a Presbyterian, preach: "We do not have the right to be smug. We cannot cure evil by ourselves, but we can by ... working with...
...commandant, Colonel Frank Howley-a rock-jawed Irishman-issued a bold appeal: "Berliners, show your courage . . . There are evil forces at work . . . whose sworn and ordered mission is to create chaos . . . The people of Berlin will not be permitted to starve." Unfortunately, Howley could not tell them exactly how they would be fed. Western Berlin depends for the most part on 2,000 tons of food a day brought in by rail from Bizonia, 100 miles away-more than could be supplied by the cargo planes which the U.S. and Britain were able to press into immediate service last week...
...author does not suggest how scientists can decide which facts to avoid uncovering-or how to tell in advance what good or what evil a new discovery may lead to. But he does suggest a general attitude that may be more high-minded than practical: "To prove that they are not mercenaries . . . they might take a stand against the continuation of military research. They might urge their fellow technicians to stop making more bombs. They might indeed stop supporting war, either directly or indirectly . . . The people want our scientists to do more than damn the use of yesterday...
According to Professor Bainton: "Marriage, said Augustine, is good. Sex as such is not evil. But the purpose of sex is propagation, and anything in excess of that intent is evil. It is an evil, however, from which no married couple is ever free . . . That which outside of marriage is a mortal sin, within marriage is but a venial sin, provided no artificial device is used to prevent offspring...