Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Jews and Christians, Catholics and Protestants, Liherlists and Conservatives, certain fundamental truths are universally accepted. All churches recognize in common that there is a physical order in its material universe and that there is a moral order that reveals itself in the world of men. They believe that the fundamental principles of this moral order were first represented in the ten commandments and were revealed in the life of Jesus, the one perfect man--whether they believe this man to have been a divinely inspired mortal or Christ, the son and substance of the Father. These universal principles of morality...
...churches and creeds believe also that man is made in God's image, that men are of kin to Him, and that their duty is to fulfill in their own lives and characters the principles of that moral order that God has shaped for the world. On the really vital truths of religion all men, irrespective of sectarian distinctions, may unite, and in this unity of thought and feeling may aid each other in fulfilling the one great aim of all religions--the perfecting of the divine order, by bringing the whole world into harmony with God's will...
...works Hawthorne put the stamp of his own individuality. They mirror the delicacy and airiness of his genius, and are tinged with the deep moral problems and convictions that entered into his life...
...satire he had succeeded; he was then to enter, as a novelist, the third stage of his literary development. "Fun is good, truth is better, and love is best of all" he once wrote, and he was about to take up that kind of writing which mirrors the moral ideals of the world, the law of which is love. If "Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's most powerful book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does not lie in its rich and beautiful style, nor in the strength of its plot...
...geometry on originals; between examinations on text-books and examinations such as these there can be no compromise, for one sort represents the mastery of a book, the other the mastery of a subject. This concrete example, applying to one or two studies in Harvard, applies in its general moral to all studies at all colleges. The entrance examinations of a college cannot be merged with those of another, unless the whole intellectual individuality of the college is at the same time compromised and lost...