Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...founding fathers understood very well. The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to their new nation. They evidently foresaw a national purpose beyond survival ("lives'"), beyond mere national interest ("fortunes"), to an assumption by the nation and its citizens of moral restraint and responsibility under an immutable higher law ("sacred honor"). "We live or die as a society, we succeed or fail, with the idea of order and the idea of freedom and the idea of God intertwined," writes Ways. Unless this is recognized in a public philosophy, "we will be sleepwalking...
Also in the realm of the moral influence of religion falls the fact that Harvard Catholics feel that atheists and agnostics are less likely than Catholics "to hold ethical opinions with which they can agree." Half the Catholics polled, however, feel that atheists and agnostics are just as likely as Catholics to "do the morally right or kind thing," and we can certainly speculate that some of this "tolerance" comes in many cases from their experience at Harvard...
...This is Anne-Marie's and Steve's day, not mine," and stepped back into the church. Pastor Olav Gautestad spread his benison even over the unflagging newsmen and photographers. It was encouraging, he said, that in this day, when "most youths have film stars of doubtful moral qualities as their ideals, the world press has paid tribute to an ordinary girl-a girl who has taken pride in being industrious, reliable and faithful...
...offering of a Utopia, but rather a spirit of freedom which harmoniously combined feeling and reason. Nor was there any "blind romantic idealism" in the poet's system, for Schiller felt that pure freedom existed only in the realm of dreams and that practical freedom was limited by moral...
Atkins also pointed out that Schiller was a "modern" poet since he knew the abyss between the real and the ideal could not be bridged. Schiller felt all art was merely a representation of idealism and should not be confused with real history. Action alone, not moral sentiment, determined drama...