Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story. (Captain Remson's wife had been too corrupted, apparently, by the slack code of U. S. high society to understand an English gentleman.) Remson finally ended up in the South American jungle, where legend had it he had found gold mines. Actually his treasure trove was an ideal woman and ideal peace, manifesting "a character that seems to me likely to carry him through our times and on into better times...
...drama of our time, but they think the solution lies in controlling machines, not hating them. The great industrial novel, they contend, will be written when men cease dreaming of such sentimentalities as a return to handicraft, a moratorium on inventions. Such a novel, they prophesy, will find its ideal subject in the automobile industry...
When Dean Matthews characterized the chapel services as unique in their spirit of devotion, he summarized in that phrase the ideal for which Dean Sperry has been striving for many years. Compared with the compulsory chapel that is found in many other colleges, where everything from religion to the disposal of cigarette stubs is Discussed, Harvard's religious organization is certainly superior; but at the same time it is significant that the spirit which Dean Matthews found was as much due to the brilliance of its distinguished visitor as to characteristics inherent in chapel itself...
Perhaps it all started when the Vagabond read a candidate's campaign promise that he "would live up to the ideals of 'Veritas'." And all at once the Vagabond felt a blind fury sweep over him as he realized that it had come to this, that the ideal for which men had crossed the ocean, faced hunger, pestilence, and every sort of privation and danger, had now become a cheap symbol to be handed about at election rallies...
...clue to existence to be found in matter? Or in the ceaseless movement to no end, as of living organisms depending on instinct? Or is it rather to be found in personal adherence to an ideal, as expressed in the life of a great and good person--a sage, a pioneer, a saint? It we choose the latter, then we are not like a machine, or a bundle of instincts, but are useful, intelligent, humane individuals...