Word: moral
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts, spoke on Phillips Brooks--and especially of his uncompromising love for the truth of his belief in the binding obligation of truth on a man's life as well as his thought, and finally of his conviction that all search for moral truth would end sooner or later in alliegance to Jesus of Nazareth...
...coming year, and especially the one preeminent aim of the association--that it may be so broad as to unite in straight-forward religious life and work all earnest Harvard men, and that creed and form, while not considered lightly, may yet be subordinate to unity in fundamental moral, ethical and religious purposes...
...years his favorite personages have been peasants; he loves them because they are simple as the domestic animals which live with them. In a word he loves those who are at the bottom, who ignore or know nothing of the moral laws. He ridicules the men who bear on their shoulders the weight of society, who confound police regulations with the moral law, those who think it a sin to break a petty ordinance, but who will commit murder if the law will absolve them...
...most characteristic difference between the social life of the North and the South of France is the difference position of woman in the two parts. In the Germanic and Norman Northern sections, she occupies a higher place, and the home is in a more moral atmosphere than in the South. After the revolution, the farmer desired his wife and daughters to be the intellectual equals of the noble women, and in this way the classes became much intermixed...
...association addresses itself to all those who are interested in German culture, "in the hope that many persons may be found who will desire to join the association, and give moral and financial assistance to an undertaking remarkable for its international as well as national significance...