Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exclusive trait of the human mind to be appreciative of anything that is transcendental whether that thing belongs to the physical, moral, or intellectual world. All normally developed human beings are as a rule fascinated by the presence of the true, the good, and the beautiful irrespective of race, caste, or any such man-made differentiation...
...scene, in our days, a man who is attracting just such attention of the entire civilized world. He is Mahatma Gandhi of India. He is a man who has tried and is still trying an experiment in the field of politics; the sanctifying of politics by the inception of moral and spiritual laws. Mr. Gandhi says that all that is immoral, unholy, and unjust in the life of an individual is equally so if it is found in the life of a nation. Governments should be judged with the same strict standards of morality that we all wish to apply...
...Party's platform was issued, signed by Mr. Asquith and Mr. George. This manifesto was predominately denunciatory. It damned the French occupation of the Ruhr, the Baldwin Government for its weak handling of the Ruhr, the U. S. cooperation offer, the "Shameless Treaty of Lausanne "- in fact the " moral indecision" and " diplomatic incompetence" displayed by the Government in every question of foreign policy...
...case for Peru is that she claims that "the only just plebiscite, preserving the legal and moral interests of both Chile and Peru under the Treaty of Ancon, would be one which would reflect the conditions as to population prevailing in 1894." Continuing, the brief explains that the seizure of territory constituted " the greatest war indemnity the world has ever known." Peru claims, moreover, that the population of the two provinces was overwhelmingly Peruvian down to 1910, therefore "the plebiscite contemplated by the Treaty may for all practical purposes be regarded as having been held, and to have resulted virtually...
...only a third denied this or thought war to be conditional on the behavior of the two nations. The significant fact is that the reasons in the first case tended to be of a primitive nature, while in the second case they indicated intelligence and-more important-information. The moral is: Inform, the assumption being that knowledge is the chief enemy of prejudice and so of war. It is a sound assumption...