Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series occurs at 9 o'clock in Emerson A, where Mr. E. D. Smith's class will discuss some problems of honesty and accuracy in the factory. As the practical center about which modern social and industrial life has been built, the factory and the mental and moral conditions which it breeds, is a question which touches us closely...
...Atwill) will always love her. The husband suspects less tender motives. The big scene looks as if it were pitching for tragedy. But that impulse cracks in the middle of the last act, and the playwright pastes on a happy ending, including love, faith and a wholesome dose of moral retribution. Miss Brady, as usual, ably projects her emotional scenes. But she, like any other performer who would essay the role, looks ridiculous in the heaping portions of lovey-dovey that were just too darling about the last fringe of the Victorian period but smell even more pungent than camphor...
...standard of some self-imposed law. . . . Fear of penalties at best can only be a restraining influence. Respect for law based upon fear alone has little or no value in the life of a community . . . . It becomes more and more evident that no government can make man moral...
Discussions of the moral aspects of birth control have brought forth some odd contentions. It is maintained that birth control would cause racial deterioration; in the first place because the opportunity of producing genius is restricted, and in the second place because the opportunity of producing genius is restricted, and in the third place because there is an association between fine minds and feeble bodies. It is the type of argument that impresses the layman, being made so dogmatically that he feels that it must have some basis of fact. The first point becomes absurd when once one realizes where...
...Science without religion obviously may become a curse rather than a blessing to mankind, but science dominated by the spirit of religion is the key to progress and the hope of the future. . . . The most important thing in the world is a belief in the reality of moral and spiritual values. The second is a belief in the spirit and the methods of Galileo, of Newton, of Faraday, and of the other great builders of this modern scientific age-this age of the understanding and the control of nature. . . . For while a starving man may, indeed, be supremely happy...