Word: morals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will, that a great part of human suffering had its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. Where was the remedy to be found, if remedy indeed there were? It was to be sought at least only in an improvement wrought by those moral influences that build up and buttress the personal character. Goethe taught the self-culture that results in self-possession, in breadth and impartiality of view, and in equipoise of mind. Wordsworth inculcated that self-development through intercourse with man and nature which leads to self-sufficingness, self-sustainment and equilibrium...
...spirit which led to the Great Exhibition of 1851, with that which underlay the first crusade we can hardly hesitate as to which was the nobler and most inspiring. And it was curious to see at the time the Atlantic cable was laid how much more the political and moral significance of the achievement was dwelt on than the commercial...
Even as a teacher he is often too much of a pedagogue, and is apt to forget that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes...
...connection with another passage in the same chapter, Dr. Abbott spoke of our ability ot discern good and evil. He said that man is naturally bad, and in bearing this load of evil his moral faculties are impaired. To develop this power of discernment is life's hardest task and the one upon which we must bestow our greatest care. Every familiarity with evil undermines our moral nature and strengthens the evil that is in us. On the other hand our associations with good break down the wrong and build up the right. God's aid alone is able...
...Private charity is the best means of furnishing the necessary aid, because (a) it can best ascertain the actual number of those in absolute want, and (b) by exercising a personal and moral influence it tends to strengthen the laborer's self-dependence...