Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embodiment of justice and harmony, and detected symmetry also in the events of history and in the facts of geography. He believed in an absolutely round earth, the center of the universe, in which the heavenly bodies moved in patterns of absolute symmetry. He believed likewise in a moral system of unerring justice, proceeding from God himself...
...believed, there is unswerving correspondence; an exact balance is ordained between our sins and their punishment, between our merits and their rewards. As with the individual, so with society; if the world be wicked, it shall suffer; if it redeem itself, it shall be happy. As a basis of moral strength, neither science nor philosophy has yet invented a substitute for absolute faith in responsibility and justice...
...high ideals find expression in the progress of the community and the virtue of the individual. These two factors lead to a period of great prosperity, as in Rome 2000 years ago, or at Harvard today. Prosperity, in turn, by a rule never known to fall, leads to a moral slackening, slight at first, later accelerated--which ultimately results in the downfall of the society. The first symptom of this period of decadence is seen when the authorities find it necessary to make the laws more strict. In Rome the liberal republic gave way to a tyrannical monarchy; at Harvard...
Officers to be eligible for promotion must have held one grade for at least three years, and they will come before examining boards, that will be conveniently located, where they will be examined for general, physical, moral and professional fitness. In computing these required three years in any grade, credit will be given for service since November 11, 1918, with double credit for active service that was rendered during hostilities from April 6, 1917, to the armistice. The subjects on which he will be examined to determine his professional fitness will cover those subjects of a military character relating...
...American nation speeding, with invincible optimism, down the road to destruction. I seem to be contemplating the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind." So says Professor William, McDougall in the foreword of his book of lectures in which he shows that social stratification is an index of innate moral and intellectual qualifications. This seems to be a time for pointing out lessons; yet it may not be inappropriate to show one very obvious duty which confronts the college graduate today, and that is the duty to help check, if possible, the progress of the nation on "the road...