Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...America, we find that he received the epithets of "godly gentleman" and "lover of learning," and he seems indeed to have deserved them. His estate shows that he had a competency in England, his library that he was a scholar and a man of some culture; yet for either moral or religious principles, he left everything that could have been dear to him to plunge into a comparative wilderness...
...there was no such intention. At the same time increased publicity should be met with just comprehension. It is believed by some that the stability and success of the association will be best secured by inducing the members to become fully acquainted with its affairs. They certainly have the moral courage to face the truth, and, if anything is wrong, they may right it. I only hope that the explanation I shall now give will reach all those who may have had their suspicions raised by the communications referred...
...know and to use some exact universal formula. Has such a world any religious aspect? The answer suggested by science is often stated thus: The world shows us universal evolution. Evolution in human nature tends towards the good, and is therefore a progress. Progress tends to realize the moral needs of man, and thus the world has a religious aspect...
...intelligence, of which we ourselves are but parts, to which both our thoughts and their objects are present, forming one whole, and this whole the real world. If the world, then, is an intelligence to which all truth is present, then the world has a religious aspect. For all moral truth, in so far forth as it is truth, will be present to this consciousness. All our moral or immoral acts, in so far as they are facts, will be eternally present in all their relations to this all embracing intelligence, and we shall have found the perfect, all-seeing...
...McCosh proposes to retire from the position of president of the college and to establish at Princeton a great School of Philosophy, including mental, moral and political science, with history...