Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this discussion is interesting--especially for those being discussed. One has something of the feeling of Mr. Cobb's goldfish when all his moral traits and characteristics are dragged triumphantly to the light. Sometimes, too, there is a temptation to wonder if the critics, in their zeal, are not piling Pelion upon Ossa, and driving their proud victims to further limits in order to uphold the reputation laid at their thresholds. For above all we of the younger generation are anxious to please--and if we are expected to be shocking, shall we not do our best to give satisfaction...
...higher learning going to ruin because "the undergraduates are rapidly taking control of the universities out of the hands of the faculties" compare this with the very letter on which the tirade is based. The President says: "The success of the Honor System in examinations and the high moral standards of Princeton men are due to this justified confidence in student government in all personal matters...
Perhaps the general moral uplift following the War is responsible; or perhaps the Government has just recently learned to read French. At any rate, Gargantua must give way to "The DemiVirgin", as "Caliban" had to yield before "Simon Called Peter". Terence and Horace had better look to their morals, and Boccaccio keep clear of the censor, for a new Battle of Books is brewing. Certainly it is remarkable how the mind of the modern generation is kept pure and unsullied, and all indecencies removed far beyond it reach. When the act of sending a copy of Rabelais through the postoffice...
...average ability can administer public affairs is the disease of our political system. It is the worship of mediocrity. The organizing of the modern industrial state should be the business of the best men available, an aristocracy of brains and technique. The business system today is functioning in a moral vacuum, and unless we succeed in moralizing it, it will eventually destroy our civilization...
Count Tolstoy concluded by speaking of his father's moral resurrection, which changed all his understanding of life. He was troubled by two questions, the first being the existence of God and the second the will of God. The answer to the first question h efound in the souls of the simple Russian peasantry, and the second he found in the New Teetament, the teachings of which are based entirely on love and are opposed to violence. His father, said Count Tolstoy, would have been opposed to war, revolution, and Bolshevism, because they are based on violence while he would...