Word: pessimistically
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There are two ways of looking at the world: one is that of the cynic and pessimist who maintains that the foundation of things is bad and that all so-called right and beauty is only a thin veil over it; the other view sees that God's judgment on his world is the right one and that the creation is surely advancing to perfection...
...condemning the world, men lift their own inventions to the dignity of God's creation. They impute to the Creator's laws the preventable evil and ugliness for which the human race is responsible and with regard to which it so shamefully neglects its duty. Again, the pessimist neglects the truth that this is a remedial world. Sin has in its company that which will eventually annihilate it. The sinner's conscience sets itself against him uncompromisingly; God's voice calls him from evil. Sin struggles hard but it is surely disappearing, and man's hope may well be strong...
...joyous disposition which made his moments of deep sorrow, like the one in the text, all the more intense. The mingling of joy and pain in his life is what all men should expect to find in their own lives and those of their fellows. The gloomy pessimist and the careless, selfish man who turns his back on suffering are the evil extremes. We should be happy, as it is what Christ wishes us to be, but never shirk an unpleasant task or be callous to the cries of suffering. As a man hopes for happiness in a future life...
...spirit and whatever faith a man may profess, whether he be Protestant, Romanist or Jew, he must recognize that the same motive acts upon the man who is to him a heretic, as upon himself, a desire to worship the Deity. Consequently every one, unless he be a veritable pessimist, must rejoice at the success which the voluntary system has achieved...
...Shall Avarice Rule?" asks "a friend of humanity" in the seventy page pamphlet before us. The anonymous author seems to be much of a pessimist, a man, or woman, struggling either to incite the citizens of the United States to dissatisfaction, or one interested for the good of the Country, but blinded to certain facts in it. In the preface he says that the "object of this pamphlet is to turn the thought of the earnest working men of our country to the social problem of the times." He then proceeds to turn them to it very forcibly...