Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student's course in college so that he gets a bit of this and a bit of that, all intermingled, almost destroys the possibility of concentrating on anything long enough to remember it. Add to this activities and work, and you have an atmosphere as far as possible from ideal...
...other side. His individual judgments may be either radical or conservative, yet, in the broad sweep of his viewpoint, he is neither. On the contrary, he combines the best of both. His is the "golden mean" of Horace. The true liberal is well-informed, dispassionate, unprejudiced--in short an ideal...
...then, do some of our present-day "liberals" come from measuring up to that ideal: Too often the self-styled "liberal" is as bigoted and impassioned, in his own way, as the "conservative" whom he so despises. Liberalism is not the opposite of Conservatism. It is rather, a separate and highly-to-be-desired state by itself. Yet today all but the most hidebound reactionaries call themselves "liberal" and exhibit their own particular little idiosyncrasies as proof of the fact. Consequently when the delegates gather here next week to form an intercollegiate Liberal Society, they will be laboring under...
...light of the events and disclosures of the past few years. That classes, private property and the rest must inevitably be transformed into world-wide rule of the workers they accept almost unquestioningly. The average reader, however, who has not yet come to such complete acceptance of the communist ideal, is somewhat be wildered, perhaps aggravated, by the broad assumptions which form the foundation of the wonder building to be erected through the uncompromising method of creative revolution...
...work is dedicated to Lenin, and the reader is made to feel that he is the man of action who has carried into practice the theory of Karl Marx. Instead of treating communism as a demon, vague and much to be abhorred, "Creative Revolution" accepts it as the ideal reality which must soon establish itself throughout the world...