Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evil. .... In perfect fairness I would say to the Senator I would just as lief Willkie should be on the committee as the Senator from New Hampshire. ... He hates the TVA." Senator Norris had proposed an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. But to many Congressmen the idea of one group of Roosevelt appointees sitting in judgment on another looked, despite the sincerity of George Norris' intentions, too much like an unsatisfying whitewash...
...Forget what?" celebrating German-Austrians asked each other. Suddenly crowds got the crazy idea that Premier Mussolini had presented the Italian Tyrol (pop. 613,000, of whom 230,000 are racially German) to Chancellor Hitler. Soon the big-boned, blue-eyed German troops swinging through German-Austria were greeted with shouts of "Tyrol is Free! Tyrol is Free...
...purpose of Work is to improve the world for posterity; the modern way of life is the identification of self with the Work of the world. The unity of work transcends in importance the labor of the individual. Thus in this period the person cannot become eternal; only the idea or object towards which he contributes his self may live forever. The Soul is no more; by the knives of science and materiality it has been dissected to nothing...
...idea of Immortality for the Thing is conditioned by the religious, ethical, and emotional arguments. The doctrine of the Trinity fits well the idea of modern pantheism, for in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost the Christian mystic achieves union with God and at the same time overcomes his individuality, which limits and restricts man, in three ways. The moralist says that the man who works for fame and wealth lives only for time, but he who works for ideals of goodness and beauty lives for eternity. The heart, with the poet its soldier, claims that Love is the most...
When one looks closely at the idea of personal subordination, at this "adhesive comradeship," he sees that not for any lifetime can personality be sacrificed unselfishly for the common good. It is an ideal, elusive and momentary like the touch of spring wind. For that reason it is a greater prize than individual Immortality. Happiest of all, it can be experienced during life. But the more distant is a goal, the more chance that less will reach it. Will the Soulless Age come to disbelieve in Immortality by an inability to achieve it through Work, and thereby generate moral...