Word: moral
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Government is often wrong, often unjust; and the whole basis of a Democracy rests upon the moral sense of the people exerting a continual pressure on the Government through criticism. Sometimes that criticism is expressed in votes, sometimes in petition, but it is absolutely essential to Responsible Government...
Surely "My country, right or wrong," cannot be the highest moral standard! Say rather with Karl Shurz: "My Country right or wrong . . . if wrong, to make right." ARTHUR NEWELL MOORE...
...explaining the four factors in life necessary for happiness, he said: "These are, first, some moral standard by which one can shape his life; secondly, a satisfactory home life with contented relations with friends and family; thirdly, some form of work which justifies one's existence and makes him a good citizen; and, finally, some leisure and the ability to make...
...professor at Yale, and as professor of Philosophy at the University, where he has been since September, 1914. He is the author of "The Meaning of God in Human Experience," and a number of magazine articles, notably a recent essay in the Atlantic Monthly on the subject of "Moral...
...Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity is one that has been made eminent by the many distinguished men that have occupied it. It was endowed in 1789 by Edmund Trowbridge, of the class of 1728, and Richard Cary of 1763, executors of the will of John Alford who died in 1761. The first two holders of the title were Levi Frisbie and Levi Hedge. James Walker, 1814, occupied the chair from 1838 to 1853 when he was elected President of the University. Francis Bowen '33 followed him. In 1859 George Herbert Palmer '64 was appointed: after...