Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Girolamo Savonarola, whom Fra Bartolommeo's portrait shows as the most Italianate of all holy men, fled from an evil world into what he hoped would be the vital reality of a Dominican convent. He soon found monastic life a minor copy of the world outside. The corruption of the clergy became his battle-cry. At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach...
...with connotations as important as its denotations, are inclined to believe that the solution lies not in any arbitrary prohibitions or injunctions, but in an attempt to form the national drinking habit along more civilized lines than it has ever followed in the past. Drunkenness, after all, is the evil, and it is an evil that does not assume unmanageable proportions in any of the great nations in Europe. This is primarily traceable to a habit of living which treats drink, not as an independent and serious enterprise, but as a minor adjunct to the pleasures of the table. Hard...
...generic evil, of which all other are varieties, is, according to Mr. Fruchs, the exploitation of man by man. His book is an attempt to trace its course, from its earliest appearance in primitive society, to a communistic Utopia somewhere in the distant future, in which all exploitation shall have ceased and the universal brotherhood of man shall have been accomplished. In the course of this discussion Mr. Fruchs finds occasion to inveigh against such specific evils as the over-emphasis of athletics, the philosophies of Plato and Nietzsche, the plight of the Nottingham weavers at the beginning...
...first appearance of the generic evil, Mr. Fruchs conjectures, was in prehistoric times when one tribe conquered another, and there resulted a contract whereby the victors granted the vanquished their lives in exchange for their services. Slavery, then, is the first manifestation of exploitation and, according to the argument, all present day institutions are to be explained in terms...
...unnecessary to consider in detail all the ramifications of Mr. Fruchs' argument. His general conclusion is that the generic evil will come to an end only in some far distant communistic world-state. That the generic evil should ever be ended; that it is not necessary to progress, as such writers as Nietzsche and many capitalistic economists would maintain, is established largely by saying unpleasant things about Nietzsche and capitalists. Unfortunately, also, any proofs of the possibility of such a state, or proofs that it would actually accomplish what it set out to, are details which Mr. Fruchs does...