Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...errs, Dr. Myrdal thinks, in dashing off a brand-new law every time it has a twinge of conscience. The nation's laws are too hastily written, and then their effect is lost or diluted by sloppy or inadequate administration. As a result, a highly moral country paradoxically looks on all law & order with suspicion and mild contempt...
...practical world, while there might be some good, there must also be considerable evil and brutality; therefore God must agree to wink at a reasonable modicum of wickedness. Wars and a minimum of chicanery must be permitted, though the party of the second part agreed to find good moral reasons for them. . . . So Christianity has been an embalming fluid that has preserved the peasant virtues of England down to this generation...
...Spiritual Home. The result is that in "Anglo-Saxon society a man can attain permanent eminence only [by] showing real or ostensible moral stature." In turn, that fact has led to steady progress toward "the golden mean which reconciles the necessary control of the modern state with the greatest feasible liberty of the individual." This Anglo-Saxon democracy, "like walking, is a continually arrested fall forward"-imperfect, surely, but the best there is and a wonderful thing at that. Concludes Baldwin: "Though the white race should disappear from the earth, yet if the American Negro and the Chinese carry...
These treatments can be given only by a hardy doctor with plenty of moral courage of his own. Every case of war neurosis presents a picture of heart-rending insecurity - the patient is convinced that the whole world is hostile and that nothing can make it right again. "He sobs, weeps violently, throws himself into the psychiatrist's arms as he tells how he was deserted by every semblance of a protective, supporting or kindly figure. Officers, other soldiers, friends and buddies all suddenly become impotent in the face of the ever-present enemy fire and activity...
...churches "as social clubs . . . smothered by respectability and enervated by timidity ... led chiefly by parsons more intent to please the congregations than to blurt out the disconcerting will of God . . . controlled ... by small-bore laymen fearful lest the Church blow ardently upon the latent fires of spiritual and moral revolution . . . impotent to prevent the war . . . [unable] to stand for prevention of a revengeful and dishonest peace...