Word: idolization
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...events of the play are supposed to occur in India near the palace of a Rajah. Opposite the palace stands an idol, about which the plot centers, the loss and final recovery of the idol's ear leading to many amusing complications...
...kinds of education, technical and liberal. The technical education fits a man to do some one thing--it is a means to an end. Liberal education, on the other hand, is itself the end. It is the same with religion. A savage makes his sacrifice or bows before his idol in order to get something in return for his worship. Some Christians consider their religion a means for deliverance. Without disparaging this form there is a better form--liberal religion, in which the experience of religion is the only end. This liberal religion has something in common with the moral...
...luxe of modern civilization, which, if too often the hell of less fortunate mortals, can yet be considered the paradise of the rich. Hervieu has described with minute imagery the whole fabric of civilization as some great and gorgeous temple, and in this temple rules, he says, the idol of all time, woman...
...Hervieu believes this adulated idol is far from being happy. He sees her subjected to and caught in "Les Tenailles" of wedlock, and believes here to be oppressed by "La Loi de I'Homme" Against this subjection and oppression of woman, his sense of justice revolts, and from them, through the medium of his writings, has he sought to free here. The Roman law as it is manifested and re-imbodied in the Napoleonic code, appears to him unjust. He would like to emancipate women entirely, and he desires also to have French social legislation framed after the pattern...
...ward. The very democratic character of Yale has made it the institution that appeals to the West. It has somehow from its beginnings given out a spirit that is consonant with the feelings and aspirations and admiration of the West, and therefore Yale is, of all colleges today, the idol of the West. I see a significance beyond this hospitable entertainment of the president here tonight. It is the first time that Yale has thrown off her conservatism and gone out in the person of her first officer among her alumni and her faithful adherents, and it is well...