Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rarer and more valuable manuscripts is a large vellum sheet, giving patent letters of chivalry to Messire Angier de Busbeeq, and bearing the signature and seal of Emperor Ferdinand I. of Austria, dated April 3rd 1564. One of the most interesting works is Erasmus's "Commentaries of Cato's Moral Sayings for Children," published...
...individuality in a man's religion. In the second and third lectures he spoke of the broad realm of orthodoxy and of the modern decay of authority, and at the next lecture he took up the responsibility of the church in its effects on the happiness of a perfect moral society. Last Monday Professor Zueblin said that the great trouble of our modern life is its fragmentary character and that the best way of securing the wholeness of life is to satisfy these six great wants of human society: wealth, health, sociability, taste, knowledge and righteousness. He maintained that...
...force is trained to work in the right direction, material prosperity will result, but if it goes wrong, it is a leech upon the business element. The tremendous tide of public opinion, which is always prevalent, must be controlled and sent in safe and conservative channels. As material and moral welfare go hand in hand, no selfish plan is desirable, for on the welfare of the individual depends the welfare...
...aesthetic, the intellectual, and the moral wants the state and church can do much in common. But to accomplish this, much of the orthodox and worn-out theory must be cast aside. It is essential that more rational methods of dealing with Sunday be adopted, providing for instance healthy, inspiring drama and opera at established municipal theatres rather than allowing certain managers to produce anything they wish to, as we see in Boston today. The opening of the school-houses on week days and Sundays for the purposes of ethical instruction would make a dynamic force for moral good equal...
...propounded, and the decay of authority was made evident by examples of the power of the parent over the child, the husband over the wife, and employer over the employee. Dwelling on the responsibility of the church last Monday, Professor Zueblin stated that the duty of religion is to moralize the six wants which make towards the well-rounded happiness of a perfect moral society...