Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although extremely liberal in his views, the Archbishop may be said to have a Medieval conception of religion and political unity. It is to help to attain that ideal that he is now traveling in America. He has been devoting much time to uniting the Church of England and the Swedish Lutheran church, and ultimately all the Protestant churches of the country. Since the peace treaty of 1919, he has been working for the political as well as the religious unification of Europe. He has been studying many international problems in connection with the League of Nations. Believing that much...
...must forget himself for an ideal," he continued. "Perfection is not a negative sinlessness; it does not mean solely an absence of faults, but the presence of the positive ideal of brotherhood and truth...
...should keep that ideal, there would be less pain in the hearts of men and less starvation, misery and humiliation among nations. Not till then will we be free from the hell of injustice and suffering now ravaging our western civilization...
...majestic Plato used slang in his deepest philosophical works because of its freshness and vividness. One is inclined to impute the passiveness of Mount Holyoke students under this oppressive regulation to ignorance of the distinguished precedents for unstandardized speech rather than to conviction of the worthiness of the purist ideal. And even so, it is hard to see why they would not prefer giving turkeys outright to having their dinner spirits dampened by purist police-women...
...typical, too, that the ideal embodied is not an expression of blatant "modernity", but is rather a hallowing of old traditions and braver days. Each of us has, at some time or other, secretly wished for a return of the days of the America that was--the America whose husbandmen tilled each his own plot of soil, and whose sailors ploughed furrows through all the seven seas; the spirit and solidity that existed, as Mr. Pulsifer rather neatly and metaphorically puts it, "before the coming of King Gasoline". To illustrate his point, the author has taken as his example...