Word: loved
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Clayton Jones--"If Love Were...
...unseen, or, as it sometimes is, merely the power of putting two and two together, has been a characteristic of the most eminent men of history. Without it such leaders as Moses. Washington, and Lincoln, or scientists like Newton and Franklin would have been impotent. Friendship and love, which necessitate a belief and trust in discos qualities, and even religion itself, without this seventh sense would be impossible
...Woods explained the peculiar but not unpraiseworthy characteristics of the natives of India--their passive bravery, their love of self-directed duty and their aversion to authority and organization, their respect for nature, their deep religions sensibility. To these people the doctrines of Gotoma and his greater successor, Buddha, seemed not unsound. The two leaders believed in the subtle extension of personality, the doctrine that perfect individuals must sooner or later blend into one great whole. Each man must strive for that after-life into which he can pour his whole being. In this way he will obtain the cosmic...
...dangers of democracy is the influence of the unscrupulous man with a strong will. Masses of men have a collective vanity, skilful appeals to which never fall. People are disposed to believe that the majority must be right, and that there is danger in change and innovation. They love equality in one sense and inequality in another. An individual likes to think that he is equal to the next man, but is strongly appealed to by the unusual, by what is pre-eminent or higher than its surroundings. This accounts for many paradoxes in modern life...
...hold the complete Christian view yet believe Christ the greatest moral example. But behind all morality is love and God is love. Some religious thinkers have forgotten ethics. For them, religion is but a ceremony. Religion and ethics are inseparable...