Word: morals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...capita for drinks was the yearly average of the drinking population. These views of the subject show us that it is a large but not an unmanageable one, that it influences our municipal and national difficulties, is only a superficial question. Behind all lies its significance as a moral problem...
...science of Ethics possible? (See article by Professor James in the International Journal of Ethics. April, 1891, on "The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life...
...Social Ethics last evening, Professor Peabody said he should discuss all questions as to the practicability of the various schemes proposed to remedy existing social evils, and should consider just what sort of men each scheme would produce if it were carried out successfully. All such schemes are primarily moral protests, therefore it is just to put them to a moral test...
...same way is life a series of fresh starts, of new beginnings, every week, every day, every hour even, making one. The great helpful moral end of this are the innumerable chances of recovery, of fresh starts, which are so needful in this life of ours. At night we lay down a burden that seems too heavy to again take up and how often have we in the morning been able to renew the task to pick up the burden...
This unrest has come, not because their position is growing worse, but because they see those above them bettering their condition at a much faster rate than can they. It is not then an outcry caused by economic hardship, but it is a moral protest. Popular education, in fact, really lies behind all this unrest...