Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toasting in reply, Lawyer Laval said that Editor Mussolini has "written the most beautiful page in the history of modern Italy. We have given rise to great hopes, great hopes!" continued Orator Laval. "The world follows our efforts with passionate interest! All who are animated by the ideal of Peace today have their eyes turned toward Rome! We must not deceive them. Peace must be maintained...
...this country will also have to make economic readjustment which may be diffi cult and perplexing, but through it all, we must hold to our ideal of democracy, so as to pre serve our conception of values, and not be stampeded either into Fascism or Communism...
...atmosphere of medieval picturesqueness sit hundreds of students at tables. Diligently they pore over their books, sitting stiffly upright, apparently prevented from relaxation by an overweening lust for knowledge. Like St. Simeon Stylites on his pillar, they have abandoned the comforts of this world in devotion to their ideal. Into this romantic dungeon the clangor and lurid brightness of external civilization do not penetrate...
...Dawson. Mr. Dawson resembles his three associates in many respects: he is an historian, for example, who endeavours to re-write the Whig historians, whose anti-Catholic bias is one of the disgraces of modern historiography. Unlike Messrs. Belloc and Chesterton, Mr. Dawson is imbued with the modern ideal of impartiality, and even in his attempt to secure justice for the faith he never leans over backwards into unfairness to the unjust. He is most like Mr. Wyndham Lewis--minus that historian's Gallic irony--in that he is immensely learned, how learned anybody has some opportunity of gauging...
...know: felix qui potuit rorum cognoscore causas. The reward of the scientist was to share the blessedness of the immortal gods who are eternally satisfied with the contemplation of the ordered course of the heavens and the vision of eternal law." As he points out this ideal was as incomprehensible to the mediaeval Christian as it is to the modern Englishman or American, for whom science is power, and whose ideal hence is not unrelated to that of Arabic science which was magic, since the Arabs, like us, have the application of science to the exigencies of life...