Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without entering into a discussion of Political Theory--it may be taken as an obvious fact that a radical group is as necessary as any other to a healthy condition of political affairs. Radicalism is generally the advance-guard of progressive movement. Mr. Weaver may be correct in stating that the Radical of today is not the Liberal of tomorrow--that, I take it, as a matter of individual psychology. But it would be sheer nonsense to deny that the radical principles (Radicalism) of today are the liberal principles (Liberalism) of tomorrow. The England that tore its hair...
...public good" and erects those which do serve this purpose--all through state intervention--is no more true of Liberal than of Socialist principles. On the other hand, that Liberalism believes in justice for all and in helping labor, being itself concerned with society as a whole--is as obvious a plank in the Conservative platform as could...
Still more regrettable, however, are the obvious implications of the editorial about religion itself; the spirit of cold, half-cynical and superficial intellectualism which pervades it: No one can challenge the CRIMSON's right to regard Dr. Speer's words--"Think of the most beautiful thing in the world and then conceive of God as something still more beautiful"--as an example of "narrow sectarian religion." But I for one am unwilling that these opinions of the CRIMSON should stand to the world at large, unchallenged, as the Harvard attitude toward real, personal, dynamic Christianity. I am theologically a liberal...