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...nothing less than the "striving to know and to love God," and the human conscience is nothing less than God's "ambassador." The study of history, therefore, is essentially the study of conscience. "The weight of opinion is against me," cried Acton to his students, "when I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong...
...London church and among the rough poor of London. He went to India to work quietly in Calcutta and Bombay as an obedient priest. War came, and he joined the R.A.F., not as a chaplain but as an aircraftman, since he believed that he could not, as a priest, exhort others to fight. But many operations had left him weak. He fell sick again and went back to South Africa...
...eyes and talked of a "plan." The plan presupposes that Taft will build up an unbeatable lead and Ike's G.O.P. bandwagon will grind to a stop. Then selected Democrats will begin calling for Eisenhower to lead the nation against Taftism. Eventually, Harry Truman will break silence and exhort the Democrats to draft Ike as a great gesture of "nonpartisan Americanism...
...exhort Americans in every walk of life to rededicate themselves to the wisdom of our Founding Fathers ... a wisdom so memorably expressed by the Father of our Country in his Farewell Address...
...Dire Consequences." Amid such signs that the head man's words were not going over, the assistant coaches began to exhort the team, too. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston cut short a press conference to catch a plane for New York, where, on a television program and on Mary Margaret McBride's radio show, he got in a few words for strong controls. Fred Vinson, stepping down from his traditionally aloof position of Chief Justice, warned that any relaxation of preparedness would have "dire consequences." Secretary of Defense George Marshall, Presidential Assistant W. Averell Harriman and others warned against...