Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...policy which the United States adopts for Porto Rico must have three qualities: first, it must cure the immediate economic needs of Porto Rico by supplying cheap food and ready employment; second, it must assure the permanent development of Porto Rico industrially and socially. Finally, it must fulfill our moral obligation and must be politically wise...
...Morse '00, after summing up the case as thus far stated, proceeded to say that the question involves a moral obligation incumbent on the United States: "Just before our occupation of Porto Rico the Spanish government granted the island more beneficent privileges than any other Spanish colony enjoyed. Yet the people accepted American occupation willingly, relying on the promise of General Miles that they should enjoy the same privileges and immunities as the people of the United States. One of those privileges was equal trade rights with every other part of the United States...
...good and the beautiful as abstract qualities are in most ways almost inseparable. It has been said that moral philosophers are really no more than connoisseurs of true beauty. True beauty cannot be sinful, for a distinctive quality of beauty and holiness alike is unity, and the distinctive quality of sinfulness is incoherence...
...conscious being in his conscious moods, but which finally narrows itself to treat of those of his actions, where ideals are paramount and where facts must be made to correspond. The distinction between the descriptive sciences and ethics is well shown by calling them the natural and the moral sciences respectively. The moral sciences can not be described by the "Verb "is"; "ought" expresses them effectively. Ethical problems can not be solved by an appeal to physical, psychological, or historical facts. At the same time it is true that the moral sciences without the facts of the descriptive...
...establish a continuity of mental and moral influences from school to college the great necessity is to build up gradually a sense of responsibility. The college must rely on that; it can not wisely impose further restrictions. The school should steadily increase the boys' responsibility and as steadily strengthen him to meet it. One method of doing this is the system of "Prefects," which has worked well where it has been tried, and has shown good results in the later life at college. The college, on its part, should co-operate through some system of optional Faculty advisers...