Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French Plays Are Moral...
...social menace of Fundamentalism, the question not unnaturally arises of the social benefits of Modernism. It is a recognized historical fact that religion during the nineteenth century suffered a marked decline. And with a diminishing interest in religion itself there followed almost inevitably a lowering of ethical and moral standards. In the popular mind religious belief and moral conduct have such a very close relation that when the verity of traditional beliefs is doubted and rejected, observance of traditional codes of conduct suffers in consequence...
More than anything else it the function of Modernism to establish a new ethics upon a solid foundation, and to show that moral codes have more fundamental raisons d'etre than the mere force of historical forms can ever invest in them. Modernism concerns itself with life, the knowable. The earnest youth of today faces--not death--but life, and the serious interest being manifested at Harvard in the religious controversy reveals how eager is the desire to know how to live...
...onslaught of the mind until these cherished tenets of theological metaphysics were held only in the background and with deepest reservations by their apostolic successors, until the science of orthodox apologetics had forsaken its metaphysical subtleties for the less tenuous claim of acting as a social cohesive and a moral leaven...
...surgeons which finds expression in issues of The Journal of the American Medical Association for Oct. 4 and 11. Prof. Joseph Imre Jr., head of the Department of Diseases of the Eye in the State University of Pecs in Budapest, pointed out (Oct. 4) that he considers it his moral duty to relate the results of investigation in this connection. His studies have shown him that Dr. Koppanyi (TIME, June 18, 1923)-who incidentally is not a physician-performed experiments on rats and rabbits in attempts to find out whether or not an animal with a transplanted eye could...