Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Ruskin's central contentions in his theory of political economy are the theses that economic questions cannot be understood apart from ethical and social considerations; and that moral facts having immediate relation to human character are inextricably involved in all production of economic goods. The gist of his idea is in the words, "There is no wealth but life." That his social ideas have never been realized is due to the fact that they involve a reversion to social forms which can never again be permanently established...
Popular Science Monthly--"The Science of Astronomy," by Professor Asaph Hall h.'79; "The Evolution of Sex in Plants," by Professor Bradley Moore Davis '93; "Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty," by Dr. Frederick Adams Woods...
Popular Science Monthly -- "The Missouri Botanical Garden," by W. Trelease '84; "Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty," by Dr. F. F. Woods...
Professor T. N. Carver, of the economics department, spoke last night in Brooks House at the meeting of the Religious Union on "Religion from the Point of View of the Student of Sociology." He discussed at length the function of religion in social development, maintaining that religion as a moral and conservative force is an aid to progress Science and religion, he said, sprang originally from the same sources in human nature, the desire to know, and the desire to find the hidden causes of things. The wonder excited by the contemplation of the unexplainable realities of experience, the belief...
Much of the verse, on the other hand, is graceful, dignified and highly suggestive. "The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory," read before the Phi Beta Kappa in 1898, is perhaps the best work in the book. The moral it teaches might be remembered to great advantage today by many of those in quest of the strenuous life. One bit, in a description of a recent Harvard-Yale football game, seems at this time particularly apropos...