Word: moral
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...government are admissable, there seems no more place for two school systems in this country than for two forms of government. Some good reason should exist for a double school system such as the country now possesses. The reason cannot be that the public school is deficient in moral or mental training, for if a tree is to be judged by its fruit, the school system of the state suffers nothing by contrast with the system of any church...
...play must have a moral, a reason for its existence. This moral must be an impressive one and suited like everything else to the taste of the public to which it appeals. Again, the characters must conform to nationality of the audience. All the characters of a play for Englishmen must be English in everything but name. To disregard these elementary laws is to insure short life to a play. The public will endure the work of impositors to a limited extent, but it rarely goes beyond the bounds of toleration...
...sorry "that Mr. Lodge could give us no better advice than that the doctrine of expediency should be our rule of life." There was nothing in the lecture which admits of such a construction. Mr. Lodge said, "Work for the highest and best measures, but when there is no moral question involved do not by insisting on the unattainable lose everything...
...honest, sensible man doubts that Mr. Lodge followed this principle when he supported Mr. Blaine in the recent Presidential campaign, although Mr. Blaine was not his personal choice in the convention. Whether there was or was not "a moral question involved," has nothing to do with Mr. Lodge's honesty. We have had quite enough of what Mr. Lodge calls the "merely negative and critical...
...wrong. We know better than Dr. Hale what effect this service is having on the college. We know better than he that seniors go away from Harvard without religious belief, and with only a bitter hate and contempt in their hearts for the methods employed here to make them "moral." We know better than he what a spiritual waste and loss our present system carries with it. The taste of Dead Sea apples is very fresh in our mouths...