Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very humanity has been squeezed from her by her admirers. Mr. Dibble means to change all that. He tries to show the irrepressible naughtiness underlying the intolerable perfection. She is interesting for two reasons: her career marks "the definite entrance of woman into the field of political and moral reform"; and "she was a woman who led an unusually rich and varied existence...
There is a sense of prophecy and of deep moral values in Bojer's books. They are all books which would like to bring to humanity something of the nobility of sea and mountain moods. Llewellyn Jones says of them...
...Institute of France elected Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. The vote was given "in recognition both of President Butler's intellectual leadership in America and of his friendship for France as expressed during and since the World War." The only other American member is Woodrow Wilson. Theodore Roosevelt also enjoyed the honor. It is the seat left vacant by the death of Viscount Bryce, which Dr. Butler now takes...
...Institute is composed of five bodies : the French Academy, the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. The first is the most famous, but all have interesting histories, beginning in the 17th Century when they were founded. The Institute, abolished during the French Revolution, was revived by Napoleon Bonaparte...
...Edsall says that "the great moral to be drawn from this controversy is: keep distinct things apart. Do not confuse Science and Religion." Now this is just what isn't the moral of this controversy. In the beginning, science and religion were exactly the same thing--an attempt to understand that eternal, transcendent, inexplicable mystery, existence. As this attempt was carried on, it very naturally split up into two methods: some men considered the majesty of the unseen, and made appropriate conjectures as to what it might be; and some men tried to arrive at the same discovery...