Word: moral
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecturer then discussed at some length the charges of immorality made against Whitman. He believed that, while Whitman may violate some tastes, he contravenes no moral principle. He taught that the body should be reverenced and no part of it despised...
...latter was president of the Cambridge Athletic Club. "Faculty control," the article in the Outing says, "exists in no less degree in the old than in the new world, but the nature of it differs very widely. In the new it is official, in the old it is entirely moral...
...keynote of these verses, Bishop Vincent said, is "God our Saviour," just as the keynote-the theme of themes of the Book of books is Salvation. Salvation is a state of perfect moral health, and of perfect adjustment to the spiritual world of which we are a part. Just as a child need not understand the complexity of electricity in order to turn on a light by merely moving a switch, so we need not know the philosophy of salvation to be saved. Salvation is possible and effective (through Christ); it is a reality...
...next lecture will be devoted to the consideration of this reform, its moral significance, and its intellectual influence, in so far as they expressed themselves in the writings of Tourgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Leo Tolstoy...
Paul showed that the retirement was but a step to something beyond. He sought discipline and intellectual power, but these acquirements were to culminate in moral insight. Thus also it is the mission of the rising generation to fit itself, in college, to preach to the world a new message of peace...