Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This class; the bourgeoise that arose in the Revolution, has exhausted the role it had to play in forgetting that its ideal was democratic and its aim to work. It has affranchised its sons from the law of work, and as its strength lay in this law, it has become enfeebled quicker than a nobility which has other principles and associations. The ousting of this class by a new laborious bourgeoise is rapidly occurring by elimination and without tragical convulsions...
During the seventeenth and most of the eighteenth centuries the French novel portrayed a society with a common ideal. The Revolution, however, broke the frame of this social life, and after the storm was past, each class withdrew to its own circle. The first half of the nineteenth century is well shown by Balzac, with its ideal of commercial honor. But the "bourgeois" class has not been able to receive the rich foreigner as it would like, and only today are they beginning to study and appreciate the energetic, laborious and commercial society of the New World...
...much to give up home, health, even life, in order to carry out one's national ideal, and yet it is the plain, over-mastering duty of the citizen in a free land. It is much for the loser in such a fierce struggle as our civil war, to give up the ideal for which he has paid the last price, and to accept the outcome with a fine magnanimity as our brothers of the South have done. They have recognized that this whole country is theirs as well as ours...
...until the instructor receives the momentum which a serious man of the graduate type gives. The student gives to the University and it gives to him. There is about us all, when members of a university, the sense of a soldiers life. The university is the home of the ideal and, as President Gilman once said, if it does not hold up idealism, it has no reason to exist. Such a condition is necessary to oppose to the materialism of the business world. Thus it is that we get religion here in our midst. But the forced religion...
...after all, this is all summed up simply in imitating Christ. He gave the world his best; he took nothing he did not win; he was brotherly, and he sacrificed himself to Gethsemane's agony and Calvary's cross for men. If college men will strive after the ideal of the social Christ they will learn to live with the world and to serve the world...