Word: morals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their lives faithfully upon a strong theology, which was logical and deep-rooted. They believed that every deed, every spoken word, and even every thought which the mind entertained had its effect upon the character. No act, thought, or speech, no matter what its significance could be without its moral result. This code is sound, and we need to observe it especially here where we are dealing with the foundation of men's characters and souls. Our acts and thoughts and words here not only have lasting effect upon ourselves, but also upon the characters of all those with whom...
...operating all over the country, and it is not easy to find out what is being done. Public opinion is of little value as a guide in such things, because it is usually ill-informed and is rarely aroused until an evil has become great. In short, the moral questions involved in the management of the corporation do not thrust themselves upon the stockholder, and are rarely brought to his notice. Like the absentee landlord of an estate he thinks of the stock as an investment, and regards it primarily, if not exclusively, from the point of view of revenue...
...selfish gratification, but is affected with a trust for the community at large, to be discharged with a conscientious regard for the public welfare; that it is not merely the size of the dividends, but the service to our fellow men for which we must account. If we are moral beings we must assume that we hold property, and every other power that we possess, to promote moral ends; that it is not enough to comply with the low standard that the fashion of the day demands, but that unless we do our duty to the utmost we are unprofitable...
...therefore it is important for them to think clearly upon these subjects. For good or for evil our social system is based upon the private ownership of property; but property involves duties as well as privileges, and it is on the proper discharge of these that the ownership is morally if not practically conditioned. The first duty of the owner of property is to manage it himself so far as he can. So far as he cannot it is his duty to see that it is managed as he ought to manage it himself; and a man who manages...
...righteous solution of those problems lies in a sense of duty on the part of the possessor. It is the habit of the day to decry loudly the iniquity of others, to assume that in attacking them we perform our public duty; that by reforming them we fulfill the moral law. Such an attitude has its value. It corrects gross abuses; but by itself it is not a principle that makes for the highest type of civilization. Carlisle remarked of the French Revolution that everyone wanted to reform the world, but no one began by reforming himself. Great moral improvements...