Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic or Centre Party, opened his campaign at Berlin by attacking the Nationalists (Monarchists) and their demand for the publication of a denial of Germany's War guilt. Said he: "If we strive to have the Versailles self-confession of War guilt annulled, we do so simply for moral reasons. It would be fatal selfdelusion to believe that, if we succeeded in having that self-confession annulled, we should be liberated from the obligations of the Versailles Treaty...
...assure you, gentlemen, that those things are untrue. My program is eminently constructive and eminently logical. I believe that Mexico cannot be a great country as long as it has 12,000,000 of human beings who have for several centuries been in perpetual slavery. To lift the moral and economic level of these men I believe to be a work of reconstruction that will benefit not only Mexico but all other countries with which Mexico has relations ; because it is not to be doubted that with the awakening of the spirit of industry among those unfortunate people, the volume...
Professor Lewis admitted that it was impossible to prove the existence of God by scientific methods, and declared that the only basis for a belief in God rested upon moral grounds. There is no evidence concerning God, he admitted. The theory of evolution has exploded the previous theory that God had created the world. Science and experiment cannot prove His existence. But, he said, it is not necessary to do more than imagine that there...
Professor Lewis declared that his, belief in the existence of God was based entirely on his moral sense. Declaring that the word "ought" represented not a personal principle or law, but "the ultimate-fact of human life", Professor Lewis described God as the moral force without which all life would be meaningless and futile...
...attacking the Fatalists and those of similar schools of philosophy who resign themselves to the inevitable he said. "The conception of an indifferent God requires moral indifference...