Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particularly brutal and uncompromising form. But the point is that essentially the same philosophy was dominant in the Allied nations. A blatant nationalism, a selfish imperialism, and a ruthless economic war on all rivals was characteristic of all the nations of the world in 1914. There was a profoundly evil philosophy there which needed to be destroyed. But there is little evidence that the Allies fought with the determination to destroy that philosophy and it is far from certain that the Allied victory accomplished its destruction...
...revival of general prosperity. . . . Reparations and war debts represent expenditure on destruction. Fertile fields were rendered barren and populous cities a shattered ruin. Like the shells on which they were largely spent these loans were blown to pieces. [Their] repayment necessitates unnatural transfers which provoke widespread economic evil...
YEATS (W.B.) Ideas of Good and Evil...
...wholeheartedly that today their system is actually overbuilt; generating stations with a capacity of some 300,000 k. w. lie idle. Burdened, too. with severe competition among the leading power companies and the strain of paying interest on foreign loans in depreciated yen, the industry has fallen upon evil days. Profits of 10% or 12% have shrunk to 4% or 5%, dividends have been pared or omitted entirely. Last week Baron Seinosuke Goh, head of Tokyo Electric, declared that the sole hope of Japan's power & light industry was a merger of all the leading units...
...early Church fathers wisely interpreted the nature and function of charity. They believed that charity to the poor should be done in justice rather than in mercy. Property, in their eyes, was of artificial and evil origin but had become necessary to human society. God, therefore, having originally destined to every man a share in the common wealth sufficient for his needs it became the duty of the church to give to those who had less than their share...